Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation
5. Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction 11
6. Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change 39
7. The Limits of Formal Analysis 59
8. Form and Function in Syntax 77
9. Formalizing Functionally 93
10. Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction 107
11. Between Irregular and Regular 131
12. Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation 151
13. Structure-preservation and Transitivity 175
14. Topicality and Agreement 203
15. Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change 221
16. Functional Optimality Theory 253
17. Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order 277
18. A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending 295
19. Part II: First Language Acquisition
20. Formalism or Functionalism? 317
21. Functional Innateness 341
22. The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited 365
23. Index of Authors 383
24. Index of Languages 391
25. Index of Subject 396