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functional trade-offs in grammar, across languages

What is it about?

shows how speakers of different languages manage to allow listeners to track referents across clause boundaries, using any of several very different grammatical mechanisms (none of them perfect).

Why is it important?

A vintage paper (1975) articulating the connection between functional analysis and grammatical typology. Written in the field and based entirely on the author's study of various languages.

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