Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : Volume II: Case studies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782541703321
• Autore: Darnell Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999
• ISBN: 1-282-16301-9; 9786612163012; 90-272-9878-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series
• Altri autori (Persone): MoravcsikEdith A; NoonanMichael; NewmeyerFrederick J; WheatleyKathleen
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetti: Formalization (Linguistics) -- Congresses; Functionalism (Linguistics) -- Congresses; Linguistics; Languages & Literatures; Philology & Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: FUNCTIONALISM AND FORMALISM IN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I; Mapping So-called "Pragmatic" Phenomena According to a "Linguistic-Extralinguistic" Distinction; Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixes; The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammar; Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in Tsez; Formalizing Functionally; Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction; Between Irregular and Regular: "Imperfect generalizations" in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rulesConstraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation; Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentences; Topicality and Agreement; Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change; Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split ; case systems; Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order; A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language?; Part II. First Language Acquisition; Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language developmentFunctional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisition; The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approaches; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects; the STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES
• Sommario/riassunto: The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches - functionalists and formalists - in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alic