BRIDGING PARADIGMS: FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING PERSPECTIVE
BRIDGING PARADIGMS: FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: This contribution focuses on the comprehensive treatment of linguistic theory in a student classroom under particular regard of the formal vs. functional perspective. It focuses on the transparency of both paradigms concerning descriptive and explanatory adequacy and revises the results gained over several decades of work in the respective fields. Both paradigms will be sketched against the background of two relatively new contenders, Cognitive Linguistics (CL), which is largely functionally motivated, and Optimality Theory (OT), which is largely generative-formally motivated. This contribution tries to fi nd common ground between formal and functional linguistics with CL bridging the methodological gap. It thus aims at an integrative approach and introduces a notion of motivational adequacy.

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