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Tables of Contents for Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Instead of an Introduction
1
2
From His Colleagues
3
10
His Publications
13
10
The Essays
23
446
Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology
25
14
Joan Bybee
The Typology of Predicate Case Marking
39
12
Bernard Comrie
Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories: Relator Nouns and Postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese
51
20
Scott DeLancey
A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions
71
44
R. M. W. Dixon
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Are Grammatical Relations Universal?
115
30
Matthew S. Dryer
Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis: Word Order Change in the Cariban Family
145
18
Spike Gildea
Living in Three Languages
163
18
Colette Grinevald
Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor
181
18
John Haiman
The Misumalpan Causative Construction
199
18
Ken Hale
On Attributive Possession in Kabiye
217
14
Bernd Heine
Kezie Lebikaza
When `Grammar' and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source Conflicts
231
18
Paul J. Hopper
A Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function
249
26
Ronald W. Langacker
On Zero Anaphora
275
26
Charles N. Li
Head-Marking and Objecthood
301
22
Frantisek Lichtenberk
Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles
323
34
Carol Lord
Kathleen Dahlgren
Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology
357
16
Marianne Mithun
Versatile Nominalizations
373
22
Michael Noonan
The Maasai External Possessor Construction
395
28
Doris L. Payne
Voice in Seko Padang
423
14
Thomas E. Payne
Thomas Laskowske
Mind, Code, and Text
437
32
Dan I. Slobin
Index
469