Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Volume Papers -- Acknowledgments -- References -- On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics -- 1 Antiquity -- 2 Middle Ages to the 19th Century -- 3 The 19th Century -- 4 Structuralism -- 5 Chomsky -- 6 The 1970's pragmatic synthesis -- References -- Functional Explanation and its Uses -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 Explaining the Zero in Verb Morphology -- 3 Explaining Grammatical Asymmetries and Hierarchies -- 4 Explaining Grammaticalization -- 5 Additional Examples of Typological Explanation -- 6 Explanations: From Typological via Teleological to Rational -- 7 Sense-Perception and Its Complementary Notions: Introspection < Empathy < Intuition -- 8 In Which Sense Do Typological Explanations Qualify as Functional? -- 9 What Other Types of Explanation May Be Needed? -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Structure and Function: A Niche-Constructional Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linguistics and evolutionary theory -- 3 The structuralist-functionalist dichotomies - in the light of nicheconstructional evolution -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Toward a Thought-Based Linguistics -- 1 Language function -- 2 Looking through the wrong end of the telescope -- 3 What are thoughts anyway? -- 4 Two views of language design -- 5 Thought structure -- 6 From thoughts to a semantic structure -- 7 From semantics to syntax -- 8 From syntax to phonology and sounds -- 9 Thought and language as a continuous flow -- 10 Does language shape thoughts? -- 11 Interdisciplinary convergence -- 12 Summary -- References -- Changing Language -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Syntactic Adaptations -- 3 Phonological Adaptations -- 4 What Kind of Learning System? -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- An Outline of Discourse Grammar -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discourse Grammar.

3 The two main domains of DG -- 4 The categories of TG -- 5 Non-restrictive meaning and the situation of discourse -- 6 Cooptation -- 7 Types of theticals -- 8 Earlier accounts -- 9 Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Towards an Experimental Functional Linguistics: Production -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why do experiments? -- 3 Why study production? -- 4 The observer's paradox and the 'design space' of functional language production experiments -- 5 Beyond recipient design: Strategies, choices, and brain-traps -- 6 Two things that functional linguists need to know about how the brain works: Lexical and structural priming -- 7 Experiments and their design -- 8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.