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<div>Some of the papers I have in mind were mentioned here before, such as Hopper & Thompson’s 1980 article on transitivity and Du Bois’ 1987 on the discourse basis of ergativity, but I would also add Lambrecht’s work to the mix.</div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Hopper, P.J. and Thompson, S.A., 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">language</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">56</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2),
pp.251-299.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Du Bois, J.W., 1987. The discourse basis of ergativity. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Language</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
pp.805-855.</span></div>
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<div><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lambrecht,
K., 2000. When subjects behave like objects: An analysis of the merging of S and O in sentence-focus constructions across languages. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Studies
in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">24</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(3),
pp.611-682.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not </span><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">quite a usage-based/functionalist
contribution, but an influential paper nonetheless related to lexical semantics and grammatical relations is Perlmutter 1978:</font></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perlmutter, D.M., 1978, September. Impersonal passives and the unaccusative hypothesis. In </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">annual
meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (pp. 157-190).</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Regarding usage-based(-adjacent) approaches to grammaticalization and crosslinguistic variation, I can think of</font></span><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">:</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Boye, K. and Harder, P., 2012. A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Language</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">88</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1),
pp.1-44.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Hawkins, J.A., 2003. Efficiency and complexity in grammars: Three general principles. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The
nature of explanation in linguistic theory</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">121</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
p.152.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Waltereit,
R. and Detges, U., 2008. Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis. In </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The paradox of grammatical change:
Perspectives from Romance</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (pp. 13-30). John Benjamins Publishing Company.</span></div>
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<div>Hawkins’ paper ends with “The evidence of this paper suggests that syntax is, to a significant extent at least, PERFORMANCE- DRIVEN and that we can achieve a richer and more explanatory theory of grammar if we combine generative insights with a theory
of processing efficiency of the type outlined here.” This brings to mind the Lang-Sci-Press volume on Explanation in Typology (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2583788), and a more general consideration of the relation between causation and explanation in different theoretical
approaches, but that’s another rabbit hole. </div>
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<div>If I were to teach such a course, I’d also like students to consider sound change and phonological variation. Blevins & Wedel 2009 on inhibited sound change comes to mind, and Bybee’s 2006 paper on the relation between diachrony and language universals.</div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Blevins, J. and Wedel, A., 2009. Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Diachronica</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">26</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2),
pp.143-183.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Bybee, J., 2006. Language change and universals. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Linguistic
universals</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, pp.179-194.</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a standalone</span><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> overview contributions
or as sources in which to find fine references for advanced courses on functionalist approaches to linguistics, I have in mind Diessel & Hilpert 2016 on frequency effects in grammar and Newmeyer’s 2001 discussion of the relation between the Prague School and
North American functionalist approaches:</font></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Diessel, H. and Hilpert, M., 2016. Frequency effects in grammar. In </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oxford
research encyclopedia of linguistics</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>
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<div><font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newmeyer,
F.J., 2001. The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax. </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Journal of Linguistics</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">37</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1),
pp.101-126.</span></div>
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This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old<br>
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I am putting together a syllabus for an advanced BA course on functional<br>
linguistics, and have been re-reading a lot of the articles that have been<br>
meaningful for me over the years, and it is difficult to make a choice.<br>
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I wanted to ask for the wisdom of the crowd -- what articles (or books) in<br>
functional linguistics have been meaningful for you? What have you read<br>
with students? What works do you think every student should read?<br>
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I should say that I have in mind what is usually called West Coast<br>
Functionalism and usage-based linguistics, but would be happy to hear your<br>
thoughts on other perspectives.<br>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the<br>
resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
Tel: +972 2 588 3809<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:36:47 +0000<br>
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Subject: [Lingtyp] Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting<br>
22: The Evolution of Non-Concatenative Morphology<br>
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Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting 22, Budapest<br>
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The Evolution of Non-Concatenative Morphology<br>
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Date: 28-31 May-2026<br>
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Location: Budapest, Hungary<br>
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Contact: Matthew Baerman<br>
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Contact Email: m.baerman@surrey.ac.uk<br>
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Meeting URL: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fnilomorph.eu%2Fimm-workshop-2026%2F__%3B!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!o4iakw3ELhosaOD8iOmIADaglBukIK73uCsMKmBdOSeSF63eFHyhv8EFx4luLqJCE-dfIkuYLjX1k1u5K-OpfGmFNy6HNKebpzkYVWc_YARFMUQ%24&data=05%7C02%7Chschurr%40gradcenter.cuny.edu%7C1547f6e9fc74455cb38808ddfa9dad7e%7C0b678335d50a41d3b15230149d930cfa%7C0%7C0%7C638942285041151089%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=62IzqvMNvWQpMU54xcqNnkfopj84i4laBWZnZXY%2FIRw%3D&reserved=0<br>
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Submission Deadline: 09-Jan-2026<br>
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Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh)<br>
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Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of<br>
affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the<br>
addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental<br>
features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments<br>
(e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns<br>
below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia),<br>
illustrate the contrast: the plural of ?pelican? is formed by concatenation<br>
of a suffix, while the plural of ?snail? is formed by a suite of<br>
non-concatenative operations: lengthening, a change in tone, raising of the<br>
vowel, and lenition of the final consonant.<br>
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b???? ?pelican? ~ b????-n?? ?pelicans?<br>
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lw??k ?snail? ~ lw???? ?snails? (Bond et al. 2020)<br>
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Accounts of morphological alternations generally regard the concatenation<br>
of affixes as the typical case. Linguistics textbooks and handbooks will<br>
typically introduce the concept of morphology through the use of suffixes,<br>
reserving examples of non-concatenative morphology, such as stem-vowel<br>
alternations, for later and more advanced stages of the discussion. Some<br>
theoretical approaches also reflect this asymmetry, taking concatenation as<br>
not just typical but as underlyingly primary, with non-concatenative<br>
process as a surface epiphenomenon (see various contributions to Trommer<br>
2012). On the other hand, a growing body of work within a Word-and-Paradigm<br>
framework that focuses on the discriminative properties of morphological<br>
contrasts makes no principled synchronic distinction between concatenative<br>
and non-concatenative operations (Carroll & Beniamine 2025).<br>
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<br>
<br>
But even if one rejects the idea that non-concatenative morphology is<br>
somehow subordinate and therefore atypical, a curious asymmetry still<br>
emerges. Nearly every type of non-concatenative morphological alternation<br>
has a demonstrated or at least plausible origin in segmental material which<br>
has undergone phonological erosion and transformation. Thus the<br>
alternations in (1) can be traced to the phonological influence of former<br>
suffixes (Andersen 1990, 1999), likewise other familiar examples such as<br>
Indo-European ablaut (Zhivlov 2019), Germanic umlaut, or the templatic<br>
morphology of Semitic (Wilson 2020). That means it may be possible to<br>
explain all non-concatenative morphology as diachronically secondary,<br>
whatever our take on synchrony. This workshop is dedicated to exploring<br>
this proposition, and is structured around two themes:<br>
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1. Pathways to non-concatenative morphology, where we ask what the<br>
typological tendencies are and what constraints there are, if any. Possible<br>
questions include: (a) Which kinds of units or domains tend to be lost or<br>
preserved? For example, it has been suggested that these typically align<br>
with prosodic categories like feet, syllables, or morae, rather than<br>
morphological or morphosyntactic categories. (b) What role does<br>
morphological redundancy play? Non-concatenative processes often emerge in<br>
conjunction with segmental marking. Redundancy is then often resolved by<br>
losing the segment while the secondary phonological cue is retained and<br>
reinterpreted as morphological. Alternatively, prosodic material may be<br>
sacrificed instead, triggering processes like mora-sharing,metathesis,<br>
infixation, etc. (c) What role does metrical structure play? For example,<br>
languages with initial metrical prominence will be more prone to erosion of<br>
suffixal segmental material. (d) How does morphophonological<br>
typology affect the diachronic trajectory? For example, it is likely that<br>
systems with inward-directed phonological processes (targeting the root)<br>
will be more prone to develop non-concatenative morphology than systems<br>
with outward-directed processes.<br>
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2. Synchronic typology, where we ask how much of the attested typological<br>
landscape of non-concatenative morphology can be attributed to the<br>
diachronic transformation of affixes. Questions include: (a) Are there<br>
non-concatenative processes that cannot be explained by diachrony, and must<br>
be recognized as fundamental primitives? If so, how would this affect<br>
models of synchronic morphology? And if not, would this confirm the view<br>
that all morphology is underlyingly concatenative? (b) Are there<br>
non-concatenative processes that the laws of sound change could plausibly<br>
produce but which are unattested?<br>
<br>
<br>
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We invite papers (20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions) addressing<br>
any of the above themes. Please send an abstract of no more than one page<br>
to mailto:evoconcaten8@gmail.com by 05 January 2026. Abstracts should be<br>
anonymous and in pdf format, with identifying information in the body of<br>
the email.<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:40:41 +0000<br>
From: Riccardo Giomi <r.giomi@uva.nl><br>
To: LINGTYP <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org>, Eitan Grossman<br>
<eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il><br>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<br>
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Dear Eitan (and all),<br>
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I can't tell if (parts of) this would be an appropriate reading for your<br>
course, and quite possibly you already know the book; but for sure, a very<br>
meaningful and theoretically solid overview of functional approaches is<br>
<br>
Christopher S. Butler & Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a. 2014. Exploring<br>
Functional-Cognitive Space. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<br>
<br>
For me, this is a true reference book.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
Riccardo<br>
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Riccardo Giomi<br>
Assistant Professor of Functional Linguistics<br>
University of Amsterdam<br>
Faculty of Humanities: Department of Linguistics<br>
Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of<br>
Eitan Grossman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
Sent: 22 September 2025 15:21<br>
To: LINGTYP <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
Subject: [Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<br>
<br>
Hi all,<br>
<br>
This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old<br>
FunkNet, but I thought I'd give it a try.<br>
<br>
I am putting together a syllabus for an advanced BA course on functional<br>
linguistics, and have been re-reading a lot of the articles that have been<br>
meaningful for me over the years, and it is difficult to make a choice.<br>
<br>
I wanted to ask for the wisdom of the crowd -- what articles (or books) in<br>
functional linguistics have been meaningful for you? What have you read<br>
with students? What works do you think every student should read?<br>
<br>
I should say that I have in mind what is usually called West Coast<br>
Functionalism and usage-based linguistics, but would be happy to hear your<br>
thoughts on other perspectives.<br>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the<br>
resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
Tel: +972 2 588 3809<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:12:59 +0200<br>
From: Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de><br>
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Giv?n, Talmy 1979, /On understanding grammar/. New York etc.: Academic<br>
Press (Perspectives in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics).<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:22:35 +0300<br>
From: Artem Fedorinchyk <artem.fedorinqyk@gmail.com><br>
To: Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de><br>
Cc: lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<br>
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Oh maybe even:<br>
Giv?n T. On understanding grammar. Revised edition (2018)<br>
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On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 19:16, Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <<br>
lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Giv?n, Talmy 1979, *On understanding grammar*. New York etc.: Academic<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:50:57 +0200<br>
From: Uta Rein?hl <uta.reinoehl@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de><br>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] [EXTERN] Question about functional linguistics<br>
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Hi Eitan<br>
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That's a lovely topic and I look forward to hearing what others<br>
recommend.?I have found these ones here particularly rewarding to read<br>
with students (and just by myself).<br>
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Intro/overview papers:<br>
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DeLancey, Scott. 2001. On Functionalism. Lecture at LSA Summer<br>
Institute, Santa Barbara, 2001. Online at<br>
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Mackenzie, J. Lachlan. 2016. Functional Linguistics. In: Keith Allan<br>
(ed.). Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. London/New York: Routledge, p.<br>
470-484.<br>
<br>
And of course excerpts of<br>
<br>
Paul, Hermann. 1880/1995. Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte.<br>
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Mouton.<br>
<br>
With comments (and translations of some parts in the same volume) here:<br>
<br>
Auer, Peter. 2015. Reflections on Hermann Paul As a Usage-Based<br>
Grammarian. In: Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen, Werner Frick (eds). Hermann<br>
Paul?s Principles of Language History Revisited. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.<br>
<br>
In addition to Paul, I tend to also include in my courses some papers<br>
/chapters that are functionalist, while not themselves meta papers on<br>
functionalism. A very small selection of some personal favourites are:<br>
<br>
Haiman, John. 1994. Ritualization and the development of language. In:<br>
William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on Grammaticalization.<br>
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 3?28.<br>
<br>
Mithun, Marianne & Wallace Chafe. 1999. What are S, A, and O? Studies in<br>
Language 23(3), p. 569-596.<br>
<br>
Chafe, Wallace. 1994. Discourse, Consciousness and Time. Chicago/London:<br>
The University of Chicago Press.<br>
<br>
Uta<br>
<br>
Am 22.09.2025 um 15:21 schrieb Eitan Grossman via Lingtyp:<br>
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This is maybe a?mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old<br>
FunkNet, but I thought I'd give it a try.<br>
<br>
I am putting together a syllabus for an advanced BA course on<br>
functional linguistics, and have been re-reading a lot of the articles<br>
that have been meaningful for me over the years, and it is difficult<br>
to make a choice.<br>
<br>
I wanted to ask for the wisdom of the crowd -- what articles (or<br>
books) in functional linguistics have been meaningful for you? What<br>
have you read with students? What works do you think every student<br>
should read?<br>
<br>
I should say that I have in mind what is usually called West Coast<br>
Functionalism and usage-based linguistics, but would be happy to hear<br>
your thoughts on other perspectives.<br>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share<br>
the resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:56:04 +0000<br>
From: Matthew Dryer <dryer@buffalo.edu><br>
To: Larry M Hyman <hyman@berkeley.edu>, Sergey Loesov<br>
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In the Wapei branch of the Torricelli family, a change from l to n<br>
occurred in the language Au.<br>
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Matthew<br>
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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of<br>
Larry M Hyman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3:56?PM<br>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] L > N<br>
Thanks for all of the examples showing l > n. Although the contexts vary,<br>
I assume this change is a case of "strengthening", which would naturally<br>
associate it with onset position (although also with stem- and word-initial<br>
positions). From my experience, prefixes are more likely to undergo l > n.<br>
In some Grassfields Bantu and Northwest Bantu languages the noun class 5<br>
prefix *li- is realized ni- (~ n?-), e.g. Yemba (Bamileke-Dschang) l?-,<br>
Mbui ni-. I suspect that the greater resistance of *l to [n] at the<br>
beginning of lexical morphemes (e.g. noun and verb roots) is because of the<br>
more significant contrastiveness of /l/ and /n/ vs. the small number of<br>
grammatical morphemes.<br>
<br>
There also is the reverse occurrence of n > l in a "weakening"<br>
environment. Thus, in Aghem (Grassfields Bantu), /n/ becomes [l]<br>
intervocalically within stems. This not only produces alternations like<br>
b??n 'dance' vs. b??l-a 'dance-progressive' (Proto-Bantu *b?n) but also<br>
relics of the Proto-Bantu suffix *an 'reciprocal' as -l?. The following is<br>
from pp.9-10 of Aghem Grammatical Structure (1979), which I see is<br>
available here:<br>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 5:39?AM Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
Are you aware of a shift l- > n- affecting the onsets of grammatical<br>
morphemes, specifically in word-initial position?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much!<br>
<br>
Sergey<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:22:40 +0200<br>
From: Slavom?r ??pl? <bulbulthegreat@gmail.com><br>
To: Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov@gmail.com><br>
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Dear Sergey,<br>
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you get that in Maltese, e.g. the verb ltaqa? ?to meet? (root LQG? < Arabic<br>
??? with C3 ? replaced by ?) is offen encountered in the imperfect as<br>
jintaqa? (sg.) or jintaqg?u (pl.) instead of jiltaqa?, jiltaqg?u.<br>
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Best,<br>
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El ds 20.?9.?2025 a les 14:30 Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <<br>
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<br>
Are you aware of a shift *l*- > *n*- affecting the onsets of grammatical<br>
morphemes, specifically in word-initial position?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you very much!<br>
<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:06:13 +0000<br>
From: Ilana Mushin <i.mushin@uq.edu.au><br>
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Hi Eitan,<br>
Great topic for a course!<br>
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In addition to Hopper & Thompson (1984) on lexical categories, there is also Hopper and Thompson (1980) Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56:2, 251-299.<br>
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Hopper and Thompson followed this work on transitivity nicely in 2001 with a paper looking at transitivity in conversation.<br>
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Thompson & Hopper (2001) Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation Bybee & Hopper (eds) Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure. John Benjamins (pp.27-60)<br>
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Also Thompson & Mulac on that-complementation is a classic.<br>
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Thompson, S. & Mulac, A. (1991) The discourse conditions for the use of complementizer that in conversational English. Journal of Pragmatics 15:3, 237-251.<br>
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If you are covering the scope of ?West-coast functionalism?, I?d also suggest including the recent work in Interactional Linguistics, which is what this kind of functionalism morphed into for linguists like Sandy Thompson and Paul Hopper. There is an excellent
comprehensive textbook.<br>
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Couper-Kuhlen, E. & Selting, M. (2018) Interactional Linguistics. CUP.<br>
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Have fun with the course!<br>
Ilana<br>
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Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2025 at 12:08?am<br>
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Subject: [Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<br>
Hi all,<br>
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This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old FunkNet, but I thought I'd give it a try.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:00:23 -0700<br>
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Dear Eitan and all:<br>
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Joan Bybee's chapter What is Usage-Based Linguistics? pages: 7-29<br>
In: *Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics*. Editors Manuel D?az-Campos, Sonia<br>
Balasch<br>
DOI:10.1002/9781119839859<br>
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Best regards<br>
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El lun, 22 sept 2025 a las 6:38, Eitan Grossman via Lingtyp (<<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br>
<br>
This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old<br>
FunkNet, but I thought I'd give it a try.<br>
<br>
I am putting together a syllabus for an advanced BA course on functional<br>
linguistics, and have been re-reading a lot of the articles that have been<br>
meaningful for me over the years, and it is difficult to make a choice.<br>
<br>
I wanted to ask for the wisdom of the crowd -- what articles (or books) in<br>
functional linguistics have been meaningful for you? What have you read<br>
with students? What works do you think every student should read?<br>
<br>
I should say that I have in mind what is usually called West Coast<br>
Functionalism and usage-based linguistics, but would be happy to hear your<br>
thoughts on other perspectives.<br>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the<br>
resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
Tel: +972 2 588 3809<br>
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:03:52 +0000<br>
From: Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77@buffalo.edu><br>
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Hi Eitan ? Below are some candidates from my personal selection of indispensable functionalist classics I want every student of mine to have read. Since you said ?articles?, I picked only articles and chapters in edited volumes etc. Plus, I?m limiting myself
to contributions that are narrowly functionalist in that they point out a morphosyntactic pattern in a number of languages and propose an explanation based on assumptions about processing and/or general cognition. ? Best ? Juergen<br>
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Bybee, J. L., W. Pagliuca, & R. Perkins. (1990). On the asymmetries in the affixation of grammatical material. In W. Croft, K. Denning and S. Kemmer (eds.) Studies in diachronic typology for Joseph H. Greenberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-42.<br>
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Chafe, W. (1976). Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics and point of view. In C. N. Li (ed.), Subject and topic. New York, NY: Academic Press. 27-55.<br>
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Du Bois, J. W. (1987). The discourse basis of ergativity. Language 63(4): 805-855.<br>
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Giv?n, T. (1980). The binding hierarchy and the typology of complements. Studies in Language 4(3): 333-377.<br>
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Giv?n, T. (1983). Introduction. In T. Giv?n (ed.), Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-42.<br>
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Gundel, J. K., N. Hedberg, & R. Zacharski. (1993). Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse. Language 69: 274-307.<br>
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Haiman, J. (1983). Iconic and economic motivation. Language 59(4):781?819.<br>
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Hawkins, J. A. (1990). A parsing theory of word order universals. Linguistic Inquiry 21: 223-261.<br>
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Hopper, P. J. & S. A. Thompson. (1980). Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Language 56(2): 251-299.<br>
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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Eitan Grossman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
Date: Monday, September 22, 2025 at 09:57<br>
To: LINGTYP <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
Subject: [Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<br>
Hi all,<br>
<br>
This is maybe a mail for a mailing list that no longer exists, the old FunkNet, but I thought I'd give it a try.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the resulting reading list/syllabus.<br>
<br>
Eitan<br>
<br>
<br>
Eitan Grossman<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
Tel: +972 2 588 3809<br>
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