Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. The dynamics of the clausal structure 19
7. Chapter 3. Constituency and patterns of syntactic contiguity 55
8. Chapter 4. Pragmatics of word order 81
9. Chapter 5. Referring expressions 115
10. Chapter 6. Classifiers and classifier constructions 163
11. Chapter 7. Noun-modifying constructions 191
12. Chapter 8. Complementation constructions 219
13. Chapter 9. Some more constructions in Chinese 243
14. Chapter 10. The left and right peripheries in the clause and sequence structure 287
15. Chapter 11. Projection and repair 321
16. Chapter 12. Grammar, construction and social action 347
17. Chapter 13. Meaning in interaction 377
18. Chapter 14. Language, cognition and the complexity turn in grammatical research 403
19. Reference 433
20. Index 455