Contents: Ale_ Bi_an/Paul Rastall: Axiomatic Functionalism - History, philosophy and contributions to the approach _ Jan W. F. Mulder: How real are linguistic entities? _ Jan W. F. Mulder: Effective methodology and effective phonological description _ Ale_ Bi_an: Distributional unit: Hypothesis and testing _ Jan W. F. Mulder: An unorthodox view of the English verbal system _ Paul Rastall: Realisational sequences in grammar _ Sheena Gardner/Sándor G. J.

Hervey: Structural sentence types _ Sándor G. J. Hervey: Sentences and linguistic data _ Sándor G. J. Hervey: Notions in the manipulation of non-denotational meaning in speech _ Jan W. F. Mulder: Axiomatic Functionalism and re_ections on key questions in linguistics _ Paul Rastall: «Theory» in linguistics - Strengths and weaknesses in Axiomatic Functionalism _ Jan W. F.

Mulder/Sándor G. J. Hervey: Postulates for Axiomatic Functionalism _ Ale_ Bi_an: Bibliography of Axiomatic Functionalism (Compiled by Ale_ Bi_an).