Ebook: Form and formalism in linguistics

Preface
James McElvenny iii
1 Visual formalisms in comparative-historical linguistics
Judith Kaplan 1
2 Alternating sounds and the formal franchise in phonology
James McElvenny 35
3 On Sapir’s notion of form/pattern and its aesthetic background
Jean-Michel Fortis 59
4 Linguistics as a “special science”: A comparison of Sapir and Fodor
Els Elffers 89
5 The impact of Russian formalism on linguistic structuralism
Bart Karstens 115
6 The resistant embrace of formalism in the work of Émile Benveniste
and Aurélien Sauvageot
John E. Joseph 141
7 Linguistics as a science of structure
Ryan M. Nefdt 175
8 Formalism, grammatical rules, and normativity
Geoffrey K. Pullum 197
9 Linguistic form: A political epistemology
Nick Riemer 225