Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. I. Verbal Categories and Processes in Categorizations
7. The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian 3
8. Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language 67
9. Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism: 91
10. II. Syntactic Functions and Case-Marking
11. Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki 111
12. A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-Aryan 133
13. Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir 175
14. III. Clause Combining and Discourse
15. Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania 205
16. Non-past copular markers in Turkish 221
17. On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama ‘but/yet’ and fakat ‘but’ in written Turkish 251
18. Anaphora in Ossetic correlatives and the typology of clause combining 275
19. Kinds of evidentiality in German complement clauses 311
20. Evidentiality in Dzungar Tuvan 339
21. IV. Historical Issues
22. On the evolution of Russian subject reference 381
23. The development of negation in the Transeurasian languages 401
24. List of Index 421