The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: Developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Agreement: More arguments for the dynamic expression model 1
5. Constituent ordering in the expression component of Functional Grammar 41
6. Dynamic expression in Functional Discourse Grammar 53
7. Noun incorporation in Functional Discourse Grammar 87
8. Morphosyntactic templates 135
9. A crosslinguistic study of ‘locative inversion’: Evidence for the Functional Discourse Grammar model 163
10. The agreement cross-reference continuum: Person marking in FG 203
11. The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: Developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication 249
12. Non-verbal predicability and copula support rule in Spanish Sign Language 281
13. A new view on the semantics and pragmatics of operators of aspect, tense and quantification 317
14. Exclamation: Sentence type, illocution or modality? 351
15. Close appositions 381
16. Inversion and the absence of grammatical relations in Plains Cree 419
17. Direction diathesis and obviation in Functional Grammar: The case of the inverse in Mapudungun, an indigenous language of south central Chile 447
18. Unexpected insertion or omission of an absolutive marker as an icon of a surprising turn of events in discourse 483
19. Pronominal expression rule ordering in Danish and the question of a discourse grammar 503
20. Index of names 525
21. Index of languages 529
22. Index of subjects 531