Formalism vs. Functionalism: which one is better?

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The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 16(4), 267-282. Though functional analyses of grammatical phenomena are appealing to those who believe that integrated analyses are mush explanatory power, it is true that they are immensely influenced from formal theories. Also, because there are many different kinds of functional approaches we have tried to categorize them. Differently from other linguists, I have categorized them into four groups: formal and sentence-level(FSF), mixed and sentence-level(MSF), typological(TF), and discourse-level functionalism(DF). I think TF and DF cannot be compared with formalism because their targets of explanation are different. For FSF and formalism, though they look very apart from each other superficially, I think there is no fundamental incompatibility in their central tenets. And I am quite pessimistic that any insightful bridge will ever be cast between MSF and formalism. I think it is the best for a linguist to follow his scientific temperament.

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