Form and function in syntactic theory: A reaction to Newmeyer

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-56

  Francis, Elaine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autonomy of syntax; Functional linguistics; Generative linguistics; Grammatical categories; Linguistic theories; Prototypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944467193     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00046-2     Document Type: Article

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