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Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction ix
- Curriculum vitae xi
- List of publications xv
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Section I: Transitivity and voice
- Diathesis 3
- How many Transitivisers are in Kope? 49
- Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses 65
- The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs 77
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Section II: Clausal modality
- The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty 103
- On the German werden Future 119
- The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic 139
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Section III: Typology and discourse categories
- The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation 153
- A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology 179
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Section IV: Language and culture
- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self 213
- Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland 235
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Section V: Functionality
- Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production 247
- Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’ 275
- “Lice he no good” 309
- Form and Meaning in Morphology 319
- Subject Index 345
- List of contributors and their academic affiliations 351
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction ix
- Curriculum vitae xi
- List of publications xv
-
Section I: Transitivity and voice
- Diathesis 3
- How many Transitivisers are in Kope? 49
- Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses 65
- The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs 77
-
Section II: Clausal modality
- The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty 103
- On the German werden Future 119
- The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic 139
-
Section III: Typology and discourse categories
- The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation 153
- A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology 179
-
Section IV: Language and culture
- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self 213
- Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland 235
-
Section V: Functionality
- Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production 247
- Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’ 275
- “Lice he no good” 309
- Form and Meaning in Morphology 319
- Subject Index 345
- List of contributors and their academic affiliations 351