A context-based account of English passives with indefinite subjects

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Functional syntax
5. A Comparison of postposed subjects in English and Italian 3
6. A functional constraint on extraposition from NP 23
7. The speech act empathy hierarchy and Russian possessives 57
8. Aspects of hypothetical meaning in Japanese conditionals 83
9. A context-based account of English passives with indefinite subjects 123
10. Observations on three anaphoric expressions in Japanese 137
11. Qualification and point of view 159
12. 2. Other Functional Aspects of Language
13. Towards a theory of desirability in conditional reasoning 195
14. Relative tense and absolute tense in adverbial adjuncts in Japanese 215
15. Specific NP in scope 251
16. Some referential properties of English it and that 289
17. The role of empathy in sentence production 317
18. Personal pronoun shift in Japanese 357
19. Subject Index 387
20. Name Index 395