Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Finiteness and nominalization 1
5. PART I. Finiteness, nominalization and information structure
6. Finiteness, nominalization, and information structure 13
7. Exploring finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan) 43
8. PART II. Correlation between continuum of finiteness and scale from dependent to independent clause
9. Finiteness in Haruai 71
10. Non-finite chain-medial clauses on the continuum of finiteness in Purepecha 83
11. PART III. Nominalization structures and their relation to the scale of finiteness
12. The evolution of grammatical nominalizations in Cahita languages 107
13. On the tightrope between infinitives and action nouns 141
14. Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions 171
15. The role of nominalization in theticity 205
16. On non-finiteness and canonical imperatives 243
17. PART IV. Diachronic process: re-finitization and finitization
18. Nominalization and re-finitization 271
19. Shifting finiteness in nominalization 297
20. The Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) and its refinitization 323
21. On finitization 345
22. Language Index 371
23. Name Index 373
24. Subject Index 377