1.   But such research required a fundamental clarification of the explicans, i.e. the functional matrix that is to produce explanations of linguistic structure.

2.   How, therefore, should we think of the uses of language, in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure?

3.   Again, such schemes seem to be far too broad to relate to detailed aspects of linguistic structure.

4.   In fact, though, such an approach is still likely to be much too abstract to provide systematic functional accounts of the minutiae of linguistic structures.

5.   But, as yet, few linguists have applied the insights from conversation analysis to functionalist studies of linguistic structure.

6.   On what linguistic structure is this coinage bottomed?