Frederick J. Newmeyer is Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington in Seattle where he has taught since 1969. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America from 1989 to 1993 and its President in 2002. He specializes in syntax and the history of linguistics and in his current research program seeks to synthesize the results of formal and functional linguistics. He is the author of the books English Aspectual Verbs (1975), Linguistic Theory in America (1980), Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and its Possibilities (1983), The Politics of Linguistics (1986), Generative Linguistics: Historical Perspective (1996), and Language Form and Language Function (1998). He was also editor of the four-volume compilation Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey (1988).

...very well written, highly readable and extremely well informed...

• 1. On the Possible and the Probable in Language ; 2. Parameterized Principles ; 3. Parameters, Performance, and the Explanation of Typological Generalizations ; 4. In Defense of the Saussurean View of Grammar ; 5. The Locus of Functional Explanation ; Afterword ; References ; Author Index ; Subject Index

Frederick J. Newmeyer is Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington in Seattle where he has taught since 1969. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America from 1989 to 1993 and its President in 2002. He specializes in syntax and the history of linguistics and in his current research program seeks to synthesize the results of formal and functional linguistics. He is the author of the books English Aspectual Verbs (1975), Linguistic Theory in America (1980), Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and its Possibilities (1983), The Politics of Linguistics (1986), Generative Linguistics: Historical Perspective (1996), and Language Form and Language Function (1998). He was also editor of the four-volume compilation Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey (1988).

...very well written, highly readable and extremely well informed...

• 1. On the Possible and the Probable in Language ; 2. Parameterized Principles ; 3. Parameters, Performance, and the Explanation of Typological Generalizations ; 4. In Defense of the Saussurean View of Grammar ; 5. The Locus of Functional Explanation ; Afterword ; References ; Author Index ; Subject Index