New Books for Functionalists

[Paul Peranteau]

John Benjamins would like to bring to your attention four recently
published functionalist works:

1) Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics.
Volume I: General papers.
Michael DARNELL,  Edith MORAVSCIK, Michael NOONAN, Frederick NEWMEYER and
Kathleen WHEATLY (eds.)
Studies in Language Companion Series 41
US & Canada: 1 55619 927 9 / USD 98.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world:90 272 3044 7 / NLG 196.00 (Hardcover)

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of
opposing theoretical approaches - functionalists and formalists - in order
to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other
and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes
of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection
of the papers originally presented at the symposium.
Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to
linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson,
Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale,
Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian
MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer,
Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M.
Wheatley.


2) Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics.
Volume II: Case studies.
Michael DARNELL, Edith MORAVSCIK, Michael NOONAN, Frederick NEWMEYER and
Kathleen WHEATLY (eds.)
Studies in Language Companion Series 42
US & Canada: 1 55619 928 7 / USD 82.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3045 5 / NLG 164.00 (Hardcover)

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of
opposing theoretical approaches - functionalists and formalists - in order
to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other
and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes
of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection
of the papers originally presented at the symposium.

Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both
approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with
contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard
Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne
Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola
Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell,
Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.


3) Function and Structure.
In honor of Susumu Kuno.
Akio KAMIO and Ken-Ichi TAKAMI (eds.)
Pragmatics & Beyond NS 59
US & Canada: 1 55619 822 1 / USD 89.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of World: 90 272 5073 1 / NLG 178.00 (Hardcover)

This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a
specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of
Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas
and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and
theory-oriented approach and linked it with the American formalist
approach of generative grammar.
His approach is thus a unique combination of functionalism and formalism
that constantly urges the promotion of interactions between these two
major trends in linguistics. The papers in this collection coherently deal
with functional aspects of linguistics from a wide variety of perspectives
such as theoretical, applicational, experimental and diachronic aspects,
incorporating the functional concept advocated by Kuno.
Contributions by: Noriko Akatsuka; Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher; Akio
Kamio and Margaret Thomas; Becky Kennedy; Kiri Lee; Lise Menn et al.;
Ken-ichi Takami; Etsuko Tomoda; Aiko Utsugi; Gregory Ward; John Whitman.

4) External Possession.
PAYNE, Doris L. and Immanuel BARSHI (eds.)
Typological Studies in Language 39
US & Canada: 1 55619 652 0 / USD 125.00 (Hardcover)    1 55619 655 5 / USD
34.95 (Paperback)
Rest of world: 90 272 2938 4 / NLG 250.00 (Hardcover)    90 272 2941 4 /
NLG 70.00 (Paperback)

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of
the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich
papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological
variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate
their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as
a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from
that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession,
they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate
such as "have" or "own". In many cases, EPCs appear to "break the rules"
about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus
constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the
relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause
structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal
valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.
Contributions by: Doris L. Payne; Immanuel Barshi; Murray Singer; Keiko
Uehara; Maura Velázquez-Castillo; Martin Haspelmath; Donna B. Gerdts;
Judith Aissen; Hilary Chappell; Jack B. Martin; Pamela Munro; Mark Baker;
Paulette Levy; Roberto Zavala Maldonado; Mark Donohue; Noel Rude; William
McGregor; Ronald P. Schaefer; Mirjam Fried; Vera I. Podlesskaya; Ekaterina
V. Rakhilina; Maria Polinsky; Bernard Comrie.

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