Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

In Part 1 of this work I set out to establish criteria for a truly functional approach to language,
and then successively narrowed down the focus, first delineating a set of structuralfunctional …

This paper addresses a recent trend in the study of language variation and universals,
namely to attribute cross-linguistic patterns to diachrony, rather than to other causal factors …

Das Buch befaßt sich im Rahmen Funktionaler Grammatiken mit der gesprochenen
Sprache. Im Zentrum stehen Untersuchungen zum Deutschen sowie zum Chinesischen …

This chapter follows from Berman and Slobin (1994) and is inspired by Slobin's ideas in the
years before, during, and since the first “Frog Story” volume appeared. In crosslinguistic …

In this paper we propose a multiple-stage model for the development of interclausal
adversative connectives, based on the qualitative and quantitative examination of the three …

This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-
New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang …

Abstracts Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot
be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

The focus of this work is on templatic constructions in morphology and syntax, and its central
argument is that their form is consistent with the Strong Linearity Domain Hypothesis. This …

In the historical literature it is commonly assumed that subordinate clauses are derived from
paratactic sentences. However, while this assumption is not implausible for certain types of …