Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. N be that -constructions in everyday German conversation 11
6. Interrogative “complements” and question design in Estonian 37
7. Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että -clauses 69
8. Clause-combining and the sequencing of actions 103
9. A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation 149
10. Clines of subordination – constructions with the German ‘complement-taking predicate’ glauben 165
11. Are kara ‘because’-clauses causal subordinate clauses in present-day Japanese? 191
12. Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and English 209
13. Name index 239
14. Subject index 243