Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I
7. On the significance of Eloise Jelinek’s Pronominal Argument Hypothesis 11
8. Categories and pronominal arguments 45
9. Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) 51
10. Quasi objects in St’át’imcets 79
11. Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality 107
12. Part II
13. Multiple multiple questions 135
14. Attitude evaluation in complex NPs 155
15. Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank 165
16. Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odham 179
17. The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo 191
18. Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb construction 207
19. Lexical irregularity in OT 227
20. Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories 245
21. Part III
22. Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle 265
23. Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features 297
24. Merge 307
25. Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking 319
26. Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals 333
27. References 353
28. Name index 369
29. Subject index 371