Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Bridging Disciplines: Foundations and Current Research 5
6. 3 Material 29
7. 4 Frequency Characteristics of Syntactic Functions 43
8. 5 Indices of Syntactic Functions 69
9. 6 Syntactic Complexity 87
10. 7 Word Order from the Perspective of Dependency Directions 105
11. 8 Conclusion 131
12. Acknowledgement 137
13. Appendix 139
14. References
15. Index 203