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[Michael Tomasello]

THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE:
COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
Edited by Michael Tomasello
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998

Introduction:The Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure
Michael Tomasello

Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar
Ronald Langacker

The Functional Approach to Grammar
Talmy Givón

The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language
William Croft

Language and the Flow of Thought
Wallace Chafe

The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective
Anna Wierzbicka

Emergent Grammar
Paul Hopper

Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories
John Taylor

Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language
Adele Goldberg

The Acquisition of Wh-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition
Robert van Valin

Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Itegration
Gilles Fauconnier