Dimensions of defocusing

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. Preface xi
5. Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani xv
6. The Hawaiian passive/imperative particle 1
7. Indiscrete grammatical relations 15
8. Valency sets in Kashmiri 43
9. Property description as a voice phenomenon 85
10. Dimensions of defocusing 115
11. On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification 139
12. Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations 153
13. Information focus in relational clause structure 175
14. Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques 195
15. Chukchi reciprocals (with an appendix on Koryak and Itelmen) 217
16. The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from German 247
17. Auxiliation of ‘give’ verbs in Russian 271
18. Reflexive and middle constructions of Warrungu (Australia) 299
19. Language index 335
20. Name index 337
21. Subject index 339