The symmetry of counterfactuals

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative 1
5. Participles in Tsez 19
6. Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English 31
7. Denial and the construction of conversational turns 61
8. On the embodied nature of grammar 79
9. The symmetry of counterfactuals 101
10. Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations 125
11. Hendiadys and auxiliation in English 145
12. ‘Sentence’ in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse 175
13. Some issues concerning the origin of language 203
14. Are subordinate clauses more difficult? 223
15. Combining clauses into clause complexes 235
16. Overwrought utterances 321
17. Publications by Sandra A. Thompson 337
18. Language index 347
19. Name index 351
20. Subject index 357