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LANGUAGE FORM AND LANGUAGE FUNCTION. FrederickNewmeyer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, Pp. xii + 428. $40.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2001

Alan Munn
Alan Munn
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Michigan State University
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Abstract

As a syntactician whose students include TESOL students, I found that many of the questions that Newmeyer addresses in Language form and language function (LFLF) are almost identical to those I am often asked when teaching syntax to those whose goals differ from mine. For this reason alone, LFLF is an important book for anyone interested in the foundations of the linguistic framework they may subscribe to, whether functionalist or formalist.

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Book Review
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 426 - 428
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2001 Cambridge University Press

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