Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. The editors vii
4. The authors ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction xiii
7. A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque 1
8. Some argument-structure properties of ‘give’ in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia 17
9. Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems 37
10. Causatives in Agul 55
11. Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty 115
12. Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages 133
13. Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe 151
14. On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund 177
15. Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors 191
16. What’s in the head of head-marking languages? 211
17. Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese 241
18. Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations 257
19. Three takes on grammatical relations 295
20. On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt 325
21. Indexes 355