Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I. Typological studies
5. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool 3
6. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space 27
7. On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ 43
8. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
9. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context 69
10. The dinguist’s dilemma 83
11. Part III. TAME and case alignment
12. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo 107
13. Agent case marking in Sahaptian 131
14. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
15. The Kurtöp - si construction 155
16. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective 179
17. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar 195
18. Part V. Functional motivation and extension
19. Predicting reference form 223
20. Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute 237
21. The challenge of Maa ‘Away’ 259
22. Name index 283
23. Language index 287
24. Subject index 291