Functionalism in Linguistics

• By way of introduction
  René Dirven and Vilém Fried | p. ix
• I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
• On Prague school functionalism in linguistics
  Frantisek Danes | p. 3
• M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague school
  Kristin Davidse | p. 39
• Some principles of functional grammar
  Simon C. Dik | p. 81
• S.C. Dik’s functional grammar: A pilgrimage to Prague?
  Rudi Gebruers | p. 101
• II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition
• On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective
  Jan Firbas | p. 137
• Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences
  Jiří Nosek | p. 157
• Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus
  Petr Sgall | p. 169
• Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic
  Aleš Svoboda and Pavel Materna | p. 191
• A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar
  Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney | p. 209
• Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition
  Wolf Paprotté and Chris Sinha | p. 265
• Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism?
  Gary D. Prideaux | p. 297
• IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
• The overestimation of functionalism
  William Labov | p. 311
• Function and structure in linguistic descriptions
  W. Haas | p. 333
• Communication and expressivity
  Axel Hübler | p. 357
• Functions of intonation
  Jürgen Esser | p. 381
• Written language seen from the functionalist angle
  Josef Vachek | p. 395
• V. Functionalism in linguistic description
• Word-formation and poetic language: Non-lexicalized nominal compounds in the poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Jean Boase-Beier | p. 409
• On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints
  Alexander Grosu | p. 425
• A case of syntactic mimicry
  James D. McCawley | p. 459
• Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies
  Vladimir Ivir | p. 471
• Index | p. 483

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