The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax

Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 101-126

  Newmeyer, Frederick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0022226701008593     Document Type: Article

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1. I would like to thank the following individuals for their comments on a pre-final version of the paper: Wallace Chafe, Catherine Chvany, Julia Falk, Eva Hajičová, Petr Sgall, Mark Steedman and Karen Zagona. Other friends and colleagues made helpful suggestions on its subject matter and are hereby acknowledged: Edwin Battistella, Joseph Greenberg, Paul Hopper, Laurence Horn, Talmy Givón, Susumu Kuno, George Lakoff and Barbara Partee. An earlier version was presented at the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, held at Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, in September 1999.
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