Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword x
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Chapter 1. What is si ? 1
6. Chapter 2. Opting out of sex and number 23
7. Chapter 3. The system of Focus on Participants 39
8. Chapter 4. The system of Degree of Control 61
9. Chapter 5. Scale of Degree of Control 89
10. Chapter 6. Scale of Degree of Control 111
11. Chapter 7. Grammatical constancy and lexical idiosyncrasy 139
12. Chapter 8. Grammar constrained by lexicon 165
13. Chapter 9. Number and gender with si used impersonally 179
14. Chapter 10. Other related matters 201
15. Chapter 11. Background and theory 221
16. Sources of data and translation, with abbreviations 243
17. References 245
18. Index of names 251
19. Subject index 253