Editor’s introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s introduction ix
4. I. The theory
5. A synopsis of role and reference grammar 1
6. II. Applying the theory
7. Semantic and syntactic factors in control 167
8. Serial verbs and complement constructions in Mandarin 197
9. Subordination and cosubordination in Nootka 235
10. Preposition assignment in English 275
11. On deviant case-marking in Latin 311
12. Argument linking in English derived nominals 375
13. On the syntactc and semantic alignment of attributive and identificational constructions 433
14. Of nominatives and datives 465
15. Predicting syntactic structure from semantic representation 499
16. An investigation of Turkish clause linkage 535
17. Topics index 561
18. Language index 567