Axiomatic Functionalism: Theory and Application

Ales Bican, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and Institute of the Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, specialises on phonetics, phonology and etymology. He has published articles in La Linguistique and Zeitschrift für Slawistik. Paul Rastall, formerly Principal Lecturer at Portsmouth University (UK) and Visiting Fellow at City University of Hong Kong, and author of seven books with numerous articles in specialist journals and main research interests in functionalist theory, epistemology, and English. He has taught in UK, Sudan, Japan, Hong Kong, and China.

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).