Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Languages from Europe
5. Chapter 2. The Finnish se että initiated expressions 11
6. Chapter 3. Emergent complex noun phrases 43
7. Chapter 4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish 71
8. Chapter 5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions 93
9. Chapter 6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish 119
10. Chapter 7. Multimodal noun phrases 153
11. Chapter 8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction 179
12. Part II. Languages from other parts of the world
13. Chapter 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation 211
14. Chapter 10. The pragmatics of ‘light nouns’ in Besemah 237
15. Chapter 11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction 271
16. Chapter 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about ‘NP’? 315
17. Chapter 13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa 329
18. Index 363