Chapter Four: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Chapter One: Introduction 1
4. Chapter Two: Methodology 11
5. Chapter Three: Chamorro morphology and syntax 22
6. Chapter Four: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions 57
7. Chapter Five: Functional analysis of passives in Chamorro 80
8. Chapter Six: A functional look at the antipassive 116
9. Chapter Seven: Complex sentence constructions 139
10. Chapter Eight: Discourse organization and paragraph thematicity 182
11. Chapter Nine: Conclusions 210
12. Appendix A : Sample story 215
13. Appendix Β: List of abbreviations 227
14. References 229
15. Index 241