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Lectures on Functional Syntax Scott DeLancey University of Oregon Draft--comments welcome Department of Linguistics 1290 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1290 U.S.A delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu  Lecture 1: On Functionalism 6 1.1 Functionalism on the Linguistic Map 7 1.2 Functionalist Metatheory 10 1.2.1 Structural and Functional definitions 10 1.2.2 Formal and functional explanation 11 1.2.3 Innateness and Autonomy 16 1.2.4 The Typological Approach 19 1.3 The Form of a Functional Grammar 20 1.4 Functional Explanation: Motivation, Routinization, and Diachrony 23 1.4.1 Motivation 24 1.4.2 Routinization 27 1.4.3 The Origins of Opacity 29 Lecture 2: Lexical Categories 31 2.1 Defining categories 31 2.1.1 Structural categories 34 2.2 Nouns and Verbs 36 2.2.1 Nouns and Verbs as Universal Categories 36 2.2.2 What are Nouns and Verbs? 39 2.3 Adjectives 43 2.3.1 Verbal and Nominal Property Concept Words 45 2.3.2 Adjective as a Functional Sink 49 2.4 Problems for a Theory of Minor Categories 51 2.4.1 Categories of one 51 2.4.2 Universal categories? The adposition story 54 Lecture 3: Figure and Ground in Argument Structure 59 3.1 The Concept of Case 59 3.2 On Case Grammar 61 3.2.1 Early suggestions 64 3.2.2 Typology and case 65 3.3 The grammar of THEME and LOC 68 3.3.1 The Semantic Structure of Ditransitive Clauses 68 3.3.2 The Semantic Structure of Possessional Clauses 70 3.3.3 Experiencers as locatives 73 3.3.4 Locative and Theme objects 74 3.3.5 The Syntax and Semantics of Theme and Loc 76 3.4 The Theoretical Importance of Thematic Relations 79 3.4.1 Defining Relations in Terms of Event Structure 79 3.4.2 Theme, Loc, and Innateness 82 Lecture 5: Grammaticalization 87 5.1 Introduction 87 5.1.1 History of grammaticalization studies 87 5.1.2. Grammatical and lexical meaning 89 5.1.3. Theoretical significance of grammaticalization studies 89 5.2. An overview of grammaticalization 91 5.2.1. Gramm