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Publication details [#1139]

Bates, Elizabeth and Brian MacWhinney. 1982. Functionalist approaches to grammar. In Wanner, Eric and Lila R. Gleitman, eds. Language acquisition: The state of the art. Cambridge University Press. pp. 173–218.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

agent | functionalism | subject | topic

Annotation

On the relation between syntactic subject, and underlying topic and agent, and the implications of this discussion for the nature of a grammar.