Speech report constructions in Ainu

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor's foreword vii
4. I. Introduction
5. Subordination, coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics 1
6. II. Analytic patterns of subordination and coordination
7. Speech report constructions in Ainu 17
8. The syntax and pragmatics of adverbial clauses in Eastern Khanty 31
9. Null arguments in Kumyk adverbial clauses 47
10. Finites structures in Forest Enets subordination: A case study of language change under strong Russian influence 63
11. Grammaticization and relative clauses in Eastern Khanty 77
12. Toward a semantic typology of coordination 85
13. Question particles or what? Open alternative questions in Udeghe 97
14. III. Suffixation as a technique of syntactic subordination
15. The development of deconverbal prepositions: Reanalysis or grammaticalization? 109
16. Imperatives in conditional and concessive subordinate clauses 123
17. Morphological strategies for 'complex sentences' and polysynthesis in central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo) 143
18. Converbs in Northern Selkup 167
19. Head-negating enclitics in Ket 179
20. Infinitive constructions in Ket 203
21. Index 215