Universals of topic-comment structure

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Language typology and linguistic explanation 1
6. I. Agreement
7. Agreement and the distribution of anaphora 25
8. Finiteness and opacity 37
9. Conditions for verb-coded coordinations 53
10. II. Word order
11. Investigating universals of sentence complexity 77
12. Universals of negative position 93
13. Accentuation typology, word order and theme-rheme structure 125
14. Preverbal focusing and type XXIII languages 147
15. III. Syntactic and pragmatic functions
16. Datives and allatives 173
17. A typology of subjects 193
18. Universals of topic-comment structure 209
19. IV. Explaining universals
20. The pragmatics of word order 243
21. On the function of marked and unmarked terms 285
22. Incorporation, parallelism, and focus 303
23. On explaining some right-left asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universals 321
24. The covariance of culture and grammar 359
25. Author index 379
26. Subject index 385
27. Language index 389