TABLE OF CONTENTS
Roberta Barry -- Topic in Chinese: An Overlap ofMeaning, Grammar, and Discourse Function . . .
Gerald P. Berent -- English Absolutes in Function10
al Perspective . . ...... . . . . . . .
Derek Bickerton-- Some Assertions about Presup24
positions about Pronominalization
William R. Cantrall -- Favored Structures and In36
tonational Limitations, John M. Carroll and Michael K. Tanenhaus -- Prolegomena to a Functional Theory of. Word For47
mationWilliam E. Cooper and John Robert Ross -- Word63
Order . . .... . . . . . . ...... .
Rachel Costa -- A Functional Solution for Illogi112
cal Reflexives in ItalianDaniel A. Dinnsen and Fred Eckman -- A Functional
Explanation of Some Phonological Typologies . . 126
Gail Raimi Dreyfuss, Manfred Kochen, Jane RobinOn the Psycholingson, and Albert Badre
135
uistic Reality of Fuzzy Sets
Robert Peter Ebert -- A Functional Explanation of
the Development of Extended Prenominal Participial Constructions in German and Why It.
. . . . . . . . 150
Fails ..........
Sara Games-- Perception, Production and Language
156
ChangeAlexander Grosu -- A Plea for Greater Caution in
Proposing Functional Explanations in Ling170
uistics
Eric P. Hamp -- A Functional View of Bodily Func209
tions .... . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grover Hudson -- Formal and Functional Explanation
213
of Diachronic Evidence for Phonemics
Roderick A. Jacobs -- Promotion and Thematization
Processes in English, or How to Get a Head . . 223
Frances Karttunen -- Functional Constraints in232
Finnish Syntax
Jonathan Kaye -- A Functional Explanation for Rule244
Ordering in Phonology
Edward L. Keenan and Kent D. Bimson -- Perceptual
Complexity and the Cross-Language Distribution of Relative Clause and NP-Question Types . 253. Deborah Keller-Cohen and James Dennis -- The Acquisition of Conversational Competence . . . . 260
Judith R. Kornfeld -- Some Insights into the Cognitive Representation of Word Meanings . . . . 271
Susumu Kuno -- Three Perspectives in the Function276
al Approach to Syntax

George Lakoff and Henry Thompson -- Dative Questions in Cognitive Grammar
337
Ronald W. Langacker -- Functional Stratigraphy . .
351
John M. Lawler -- On Coming to Terms in Achenese:
The Function of Verbal Dis-Agreement
398
William Marslen-Wilson -- The Limited Compatibility of Linguistic and Perceptual Explanations . 409
Erica McClure and Jim Wentz -- Functions of Code
Switching among Mexican-American Children . . . 421
Jerry L. Morgan -- Some Remarks on the Nature ofSentences
433
Lance J. Rips, Edward J. Shoben, and Edward E.
Smith -- Performance Models of Semantic Composition
450
Masayoshi Shibatani -- Perceptual Strategies andthe Phenomena of Particle Conversion in Japanese
469
Barbara Skladanek -- The Function of Context in
Compound Stress Assignment
481
Michael K. Tanenhaus and John M. Carroll -- The
Clausal Processing Hierarchy...and Nouniness . 499
Ann Travis -- Pushing Forms and Meaning Around:On the Non-Standard Interpretations of Surface Structures
512
Robert W. Wilkinson -- Homonymy-Avoiding Phonological Devices in Igede and Carib
527
Victor H. Yngve -- Toward a Human Linguistics . .
540
Karl E. Zimmer -- Some Thoughts on Likely Phonologies for Non-Ideal Speakers
556
Yael Ziv -- On the Relevance of Content to theForm-Function Correlation (An Examinationof Extraposed Relative Clauses)
568
Thomas G. Bever -- Functional Explanations Require
Independently Motivated Functional Theories .
580