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- There is a group of American and American-trained linguists (prominent among whom
are Susumo Kuno, Ellen Prince, Jacqueline Guéron and Tanya Reinhardt) who have not
just been influenced by the Prague School but have interacted with its more recent
members.
- They are called 'formal functionalists' because they accept generative grammar's
formalist premises and focus on offering formalized and theoretically compatible
descriptions of features of language structure that fall beyond of generative grammar's
purview, which favors certain 'core' occurrences.
- There were functionalists in the forefront of the Praguean school, such as Robert Van
Valin Jr, Simon C. Dik, and Kees Hengeveld, who employed formal representation in
their work but did not apply the conjectures and quirks of generative formalism.
- The advantage of formalization is that it becomes possible to derive explicit
In the end of the last century
Formalist >< Functionalist