Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’

Chapters in this book

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