The syntax of Danish verbs

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Is there a passive in Nahuatl? 1
5. Grammaticalized focus in Yukagir 17
6. Iconic motivations in conflict 39
7. The syntax of Danish verbs 65
8. From lexical potential to syntactic realization 103
9. Danish directional adverbs 159
10. Danish passives and subject positions as a mood system 199
11. Information structure and the anatomy of the noun phrase 235
12. Topic continuity and prosody 261
13. Discourse particles in Danish 283
14. Eh bien 315
15. The degrammaticalization of agentivity in Tlapanec 343
16. The functions of locative prepositions 361
17. Communicative function and language-specific structure in second language acquisition 385
18. Theoretical considerations
19. Linguistic structure in a functional grammar 423
20. Iconicity and arbitrariness 453
21. Paradigmatic structure, word order and grammaticalization 469
22. Subject index 495
23. Index of names 505