Topics covered in this volume include: the significance of Eloise Jelinek's pronominal argument hypothesis; agreement, dislocation and partial configurationality; attitude evaluation in complex NPs; and rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories.

1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction: Formalizing Functionalism (by Carnie, Andrew); 4. Part I: The Pronominal Argument Hypothesis; 5. On the significance of Eloise Jelinek's Pronominal Argument Hypothesis (by Hale, Kenneth L.); 6. Categories and pronominal arguments (by Bach, Emmon); 7. Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) (by Rice, Keren); 8. Quasi objects in St'at'imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and Case (by Davis, Henry); 9. Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality (by Baker, Mark C.); 10. Part II: Interfaces; 11. Multiple multiple questions (by Diesing, Molly); 12. Attitude evaluation in complex NPs (by Nichols, Lynn); 13. Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank (by Sgall, Petr); 14. Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O'odham (by Fitzgerald, Colleen M.); 15. The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo (by McDonough, Joyce); 16. Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeno verb construction (by Hill, Jane H.); 17. Lexical irregularity in OT: DOT vs. Variable Constraint Ranking (by Archangeli, Diana); 18. Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories (by Warner, Natasha); 19. Part III: Foundational issues; 20. Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle (by Jelinek, Eloise); 21. Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features (by Karimi, Simin); 22. Merge (by Langendoen, D. Terence); 23. Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking (by Hammond, Michael); 24. Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals (by Bever, Thomas G.); 25. References; 26. Name index; 27. Subject index