Table of contents
Introduction: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation1
Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation
Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction: The case of propositions marked “accessible”11
Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixes39
The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammar59
Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in Tsez77
Formalizing Functionally93
Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction107
Between Irregular and Regular: “Imperfect generalizations” in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rules131
Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation151
Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentences175
Topicality and Agreement203
Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change: The evolution of the passive structure ser + past participle in colonial Spanish221
Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split Case systems253
Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order277
A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language?295
Part II: First Language Acquisition
Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language development317
Functional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisition341
The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approaches365
Index of Authors383
Index of Languages391
Index of Subject395
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