Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part I: Event chains and complex events
5. 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach 3
6. 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language 25
7. 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement 53
8. 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? 87
9. 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai 103
10. 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions 121
11. Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification
12. 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar 137
13. 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories 151
14. 9. Asymmetry reversal 173
15. 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? 195
16. 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control 209
17. 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis 227
18. 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints 245
19. 14. Asymmetries in participial modification 261
20. Author index 283
21. Subject index 285