A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Instead of an Introduction
4. From His Colleagues 3
5. His Publications 13
6. The Essays
7. Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology 25
8. The Typology of Predicate Case Marking 39
9. Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories 51
10. A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions 71
11. Are Grammatical Relations Universal? 115
12. Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis 145
13. Living in Three Languages 163
14. Self-Abasement in Language 181
15. The Misumalpan Causative Construction 199
16. On Attributive Possession in Kabiye 217
17. When ‘Grammar’ and Discourse Clash 231
18. A Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function 249
19. On Zero Anaphora 275
20. Head-Marking and Objecthood 301
21. Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles 323
22. Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology 357
23. Versatile Nominalizations 373
24. The Maasai External Possessor Construction 395
25. Voice in Seko Padang 423
26. Mind, Code and Text 437
27. Index 469