Preface

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. The role of quotations in Andean discourse 1
5. Unreportable linguistic entities in Functional Grammar 13
6. Issues in Functional Discourse Analysis 27
7. Intransitivity, transitivity and control in Lillooet Salish 47
8. The life of language 65
9. Auxiliary operator Inf and constructions with an infinitive in Hungarian 73
10. A note on semantic functions and adpositional term predicates 93
11. Politeness and mitigation in Spanish: a morpho-pragmatic analysis 107
12. Normative and analytical perspectives on interviewing techniques 133
13. Quechua mu and the perspective of the speaker 151
14. The discourse structure of job interviews 165
15. Translation studies: developments and perspectives in teaching and research 183
16. The development of cases and adpositions in Latin 195
17. Adverbs in Papuan languages. Or: “Where have all the adverbs gone?” 211
18. Functional prepositions 229
19. On the internal structure of the Noun Phrase in Bahasa Indonesia 243
20. Deverbal nominalization in Sranan: a search for regularities 265
21. Aktionsart, aspect and duration adverbials 279
22. Some remarks on direct quotation in Kombai 291
23. Index 311