Content

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. 1. Phonology
4. 6 Head-Driven Phonology 3
5. The perception of clicks in !Χόõ 59
6. 2. Morphology
7. PARADIGM SIZE, MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY, AND UNIVERSAL ECONOMY 75
8. The origins of the North Ometo verb agreement systems 95
9. 3. Formal Syntax
10. Gore structures and adjunctions in Warlpiri syntax 117
11. Unambiguous Paths 153
12. COMPLEX INVERSION IN FRENCH 195
13. 4. Functional Linguistics
14. Semantic correlates of the ergative/absolutive distinction 227
15. How to build a natural language user 255
16. 3. Preview of Functional Grammar 269
17. Default genders 297
18. 5. Historical Linguistics
19. The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. ěsti: vèhti: mèsti and OCS jasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages 343
20. Morphology and word order reconstruction: Problems and prospects 359
21. 6. Language and Cognition
22. The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction 375
23. Reference-point constructions 413
24. The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events 451
25. 7. Language Acquisition
26. Mapping thematic roles onto syntactic functions: are children helped by innate linking rules? 495
27. 8. Discourse and Text
28. The thetic/categorical distinction revisited 535
29. Cohesion in Functional Grammar 605
30. Focus in situ: Evidence from Portuguese 621
31. 9. Sociology of Language
32. Language and ethnicity 665
33. Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Congo versus Zairian anti-imperialism: Continuity and discontinuity in language ideological debates 675
34. Language masters: defying linguistic materialism 719
35. The pragmatics and perceptions of multicultural Puerto Ricans 731
36. 10. Semiotics
37. Endosemiosis 771
38. The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding 819
39. Bibliography 869