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Publication details [#28050]

Foolen, Ad. 2002. Review article. Frederick J. Newmeyer´s Language form and language function. Functions of Language 9 (1) : 87–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | function | language

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Review of

Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1998. Language Form and Language Function. (Language, Speech and Communication 21). MIT Press.

Annotation

This paper deals with various topics on which formalist and functionalist approaches take different stances. It contains a defense of the Chomskyan Principles-and-Parameters model and a criticism of especially functionalist literature.