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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">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.) <i>Studies in diachronic typology for Joseph
H. Greenberg</i>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-42.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Chafe, W. (1976). Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics and point of view. In C. N. Li (ed.),
<i>Subject and topic</i>. New York, NY: Academic Press. 27-55.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Du Bois, J. W. (1987). The discourse basis of ergativity.
<i>Language</i> 63(4): 805-855.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Givón, T. (1980). The binding hierarchy and the typology of complements.
<i>Studies in Language</i> 4(3): 333-377.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Givón, T. (1983). Introduction. In T. Givón (ed.),
<i>Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study</i>. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-42.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Gundel, J. K., N. Hedberg, & R. Zacharski.
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">(1993). Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse.
<i>Language</i> 69: 274-307.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Haiman, J. (1983). Iconic and economic motivation.
<i>Language </i>59(4):781–819.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Hawkins, J. A. (1990). A parsing theory of word order universals.
<i>Linguistic Inquiry</i> 21: 223-261.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Hopper, P. J. & S. A. Thompson. (1980). Transitivity in grammar and discourse.
<i>Language</i> 56(2): 251-299.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Eitan Grossman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, September 22, 2025 at 09:57<br>
<b>To: </b>LINGTYP <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] Question about functional linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Any replies would be much appreciated, and I would be happy to share the resulting reading list/syllabus.<o:p></o:p></p>
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