Axiomatic Functionalism: Theory and Application: Theory and Application

Contents: Ales Bican/Paul Rastall: Axiomatic Functionalism - History, philosophy and contributions to the approach - Jan W. F. Mulder: How real are linguistic entities? - Jan W. F. Mulder: Effective methodology and effective phonological description - Ales Bican: Distributional unit: Hypothesis and testing - Jan W. F. Mulder: An unorthodox view of the English verbal system - Paul Rastall: Realisational sequences in grammar - Sheena Gardner/Sándor G. J. Hervey: Structural sentence types - Sándor G. J. Hervey: Sentences and linguistic data - Sándor G. J. Hervey: Notions in the manipulation of non-denotational meaning in speech - Jan W. F. Mulder: Axiomatic Functionalism and re ections on key questions in linguistics - Paul Rastall: "Theory" in linguistics - Strengths and weaknesses in Axiomatic Functionalism - Jan W. F. Mulder/Sándor G. J. Hervey: Postulates for Axiomatic Functionalism - Ales Bican: Bibliography of Axiomatic Functionalism (Compiled by Ales Bican).