Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. A new approach to clausal constituent order 15
6. The interaction between tense and evidentials of event perception and deduction in Brazilian Native languages 39
7. Spatial adpositions between lexicon and grammar 67
8. On the representation of roots, stems and finals in Blackfoot 95
9. Conceptual representation and formulation 125
10. External possessors and related constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar 155
11. Time reference in English indirect speech 189
12. The X is ( is ) construction 213
13. Raising in Functional Discourse Grammar 249
14. Objective and subjective deontic modal necessity in FDG – evidence from Spanish auxiliary expressions 277
15. Name index 301
16. Language index 305
17. Subject index 309