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<p>Hi Eitan</p>
<p>That's a lovely topic and I look forward to hearing what others
recommend. I have found these ones here particularly rewarding to
read with students (and just by myself).</p>
<p>Intro/overview papers:</p>
<p>DeLancey, Scott. 2001. On Functionalism. Lecture at LSA Summer
Institute, Santa Barbara, 2001. Online at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/LECT01.htm">https://pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/LECT01.htm</a></p>
<p>Mackenzie, J. Lachlan. 2016. Functional Linguistics. In: Keith
Allan (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. London/New York:
Routledge, p. 470-484.</p>
<p>And of course excerpts of</p>
<p>Paul, Hermann. 1880/1995. Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Mouton.</p>
<p>With comments (and translations of some parts in the same volume)
here:</p>
<p>Auer, Peter. 2015. Reflections on Hermann Paul As a Usage-Based
Grammarian. In: Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen, Werner Frick (eds).
Hermann Paul’s Principles of Language History Revisited.
Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.</p>
<p>In addition to Paul, I tend to also include in my courses some
papers /chapters that are functionalist, while not themselves meta
papers on functionalism. A very small selection of some personal
favourites are:</p>
<p>Haiman, John. 1994. Ritualization and the development of
language. In: William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on
Grammaticalization. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 3–28.</p>
<p>Mithun, Marianne & Wallace Chafe. 1999. What are S, A, and O?
Studies in Language 23(3), p. 569-596.</p>
<p>Chafe, Wallace. 1994. Discourse, Consciousness and Time.
Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.</p>
<p>Uta</p>
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<div>This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer
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<div>I am putting together a syllabus for an advanced BA course
on functional linguistics, and have been re-reading a lot of
the articles that have been meaningful for me over the years,
and it is difficult to make a choice.</div>
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<div>I wanted to ask for the wisdom of the crowd -- what
articles (or books) in functional linguistics have been
meaningful for you? What have you read with students? What
works do you think every student should read?</div>
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<div>I should say that I have in mind what is usually called
West Coast Functionalism and usage-based linguistics, but
would be happy to hear your thoughts on other perspectives.<br>
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<div>Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy
to share the resulting reading list/syllabus.</div>
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