Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Linking intonation units in spoken English 1
6. A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative 29
7. Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses 49
8. Concessive clauses in English and Romance 71
9. Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives 101
10. Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French 135
11. Towards a typology of clause linkage 181
12. Subordination in Tauya 227
13. Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie 247
14. The structure of discourse and ‘subordination’ 275
15. The grammaticalization of coordination 331
16. The discourse function af clause-chaining 361
17. Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose 399
18. Index 429