The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Contributors IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Word and phrase structure
6. Patterns of clitic placement: Evidence from ‘mixed’ clitic systems 11
7. Eton tonology and morphosyntax: A holistic typological approach 35
8. Part II. Case, agreement, and localization
9. A hierarchical indexation system: The example of Emerillon (Teko) 63
10. Where differential object marking and split plurality intersect: Evidence from Hup 85
11. Syncretisms and neutralizations involving morphological case: Challenges for markedness theory 105
12. Towards a typology of ‘attachment’ markers: Evidence from East Caucasian languages 127
13. Part III. Tense, aspect, and desire
14. Revisiting perfect pathways: Trends in the grammaticalization of periphrastic pasts 151
15. Individual-level meanings in the semantic domain of pluractionality 175
16. The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives 199
17. Part IV. Clause structure and verbal derivation
18. Comitative as a cross-linguistically valid category 223
19. Towards a typology of labile verbs: Lability vs. derivation 247
20. Towards the typology of raising: A functional approach 269
21. Historical pathways in Northern Paiute verb formation 295
22. Part V. Class struggle: Erasing borderlines
23. Reference and predication in Movima 323
24. All typologies leak: Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca 343
25. Multidimensional typology and Miraña class markers 365
26. Part VI. New challenges in methodology
27. Steps toward a grammar embedded in data 389
28. Backmatter 409