Bischoff / Jany Functional Approaches to Language

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-028532-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 248, 258 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bischoff, Shannon

Jany, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;9
1.1;1 Introduction;9
1.2;2 The Volume Papers;11
1.3;Acknowledgments;16
1.4;References;16
2;On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics;17
2.1;1 Antiquity;17
2.2;2 Middle Ages to the 19th Century;19
2.3;3 The 19th Century;20
2.4;4 Structuralism;20
2.5;5 Chomsky;23
2.6;6 The 1970’s pragmatic synthesis;25
2.7;References;31
3;Functional Explanation and its Uses;39
3.1;1 Preliminary Remarks;39
3.2;2 Explaining the Zero in Verb Morphology;39
3.3;3 Explaining Grammatical Asymmetries and Hierarchies;47
3.4;4 Explaining Grammaticalization;54
3.5;5 Additional Examples of Typological Explanation;58
3.6;6 Explanations: From Typological via Teleological to Rational;62
3.7;7 Sense-Perception and Its Complementary Notions: Introspection < Empathy < Intuition;66
3.8;8 In Which Sense Do Typological Explanations Qualify as Functional?;68
3.9;9 What Other Types of Explanation May Be Needed?;73
3.10;10 Conclusion;74
3.11;References;74
4;Structure and Function: A Niche-Constructional Approach;79
4.1;1 Introduction;79
4.2;2 Linguistics and evolutionary theory;81
4.3;3 The structuralist-functionalist dichotomies – in the light of nicheconstructional evolution;93
4.4;4 Conclusion;110
4.5;References;111
5;Toward a Thought-Based Linguistics;115
5.1;1 Language function;115
5.2;2 Looking through the wrong end of the telescope;116
5.3;3 What are thoughts anyway?;117
5.4;4 Two views of language design;120
5.5;5 Thought structure;121
5.6;6 From thoughts to a semantic structure;123
5.7;7 From semantics to syntax;127
5.8;8 From syntax to phonology and sounds;129
5.9;9 Thought and language as a continuous flow;130
5.10;10 Does language shape thoughts?;130
5.11;11 Interdisciplinary convergence;132
5.12;12 Summary;135
5.13;References;136
6;Changing Language;139
6.1;1 Introduction;139
6.2;2 Syntactic Adaptations;141
6.3;3 Phonological Adaptations;147
6.4;4 What Kind of Learning System?;153
6.5;5 Concluding Remarks;156
6.6;References;157
7;An Outline of Discourse Grammar;163
7.1;1 Introduction;163
7.2;2 Discourse Grammar;164
7.3;3 The two main domains of DG;166
7.4;4 The categories of TG;171
7.5;5 Non-restrictive meaning and the situation of discourse;190
7.6;6 Cooptation;193
7.7;7 Types of theticals;195
7.8;8 Earlier accounts;198
7.9;9 Conclusions;202
7.10;Abbreviations;205
7.11;Acknowledgements;205
7.12;References;206
8;Towards an Experimental Functional Linguistics: Production;215
8.1;1 Introduction;215
8.2;2 Why do experiments?;215
8.3;3 Why study production?;219
8.4;4 The observer’s paradox and the ‘design space’ of functional language production experiments;220
8.5;5 Beyond recipient design: Strategies, choices, and brain-traps;222
8.6;6 Two things that functional linguists need to know about how the brain works: Lexical and structural priming;225
8.7;7 Experiments and their design;230
8.8;8 Conclusion;247
8.9;Acknowledgements;248
8.10;References;248
9;Index;255

Über Autor(innen)

Shannon T. Bischoff, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA; Carmen Jany, California State University, USA.