On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Glosses xi
4. Introduction 1
5. A.1 Functional Typologies
6. The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch 11
7. Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms 25
8. Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis 57
9. A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) 69
10. A.2 Constraints on the Encoding of Concepts
11. Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives 93
12. Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean 107
13. A.3 Limits of the Exponence of Functions: Zero
14. Zero and nothing in Jarawara 125
15. Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul 139
16. B.1 Establishing Categories and Relations
17. Once more on linguistic categories 151
18. Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme 157
19. Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax 167
20. Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control 185
21. B.2 Formal Typologies
22. Areal typology of tone-consonant interaction and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande 217
23. The internal structure of adpositional phrases 231
24. On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs 255
25. Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches 283
26. Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks 301
27. B.3 Discovering Function in the Identity of Form
28. Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages 313
29. “A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon”: towards a typology of partitive and pseudopartitive nominal constructions 329
30. Backmatter 347