Language index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Editor’s introduction 1
5. Part I. Syntactic terminology and typological methods
6. Clause linkage and Nexus in Papuan languages 27
7. Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage 51
8. Part II. Clause-chaining, converbs, masdars, absolutive constructions, etc.
9. Specialized converbs and adverbial subordination in Axaxdәrә Akhvakh 105
10. Finite and non-finite 143
11. Converbs and adverbial clauses in Badaga, a South-Dravidian language 165
12. Coordination, converbs and clause chaining in Coptic Egyptian typology and structural analysis 203
13. Part III. Subordination, informational hierarchy and referential hierarchy
14. Informational and referential hierarchy 269
15. Comment clause 313
16. Deixis, information structure and clause linkage in Yafi’ Arabic (Yemen) 333
17. The role of the Berber deictic and TAM markers in dependent clauses in Zenaga 355
18. Deixis and temporal subordinators in Pomak (Slavic, Greece) 399
19. Correlative markers as phoric “Grammaticalised Category Markers” of subordination in German 421
20. Part IV. Informational hierarchy and TAM markers’ functions in clause-linkage
21. Focus, mood and clause linkage in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) 451
22. Clause chaining and conjugations in Wolof 469
23. Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency 499
24. Tense-mood concordance and clause chaining in Mankon (a Grassfields Bantu language) 549
25. Clause dependency relations in East Greenlandic Inuit 581
26. Coordination and subordination 603
27. Author index 619
28. Language index 623
29. Topic index 625