The Battle over Anaphoric ‘Islands’

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. Contributors xiii
6. Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative 1
7. Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse 19
8. Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal 59
9. Agentivity and Aspect in Japanese 83
10. On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse 117
11. Evidentiality and Some Discourse Characteristics in Japanese 145
12. On Japanese Quantifier Floating 173
13. The Battle over Anaphoric ‘Islands’ 199
14. Structural or Functional Accounts? 221
15. Index of Names 251
16. Index of Subjects 255