Table of contents
Introduction1
I. Morphological Phenomena and their Boundaries
Between Morphology and Syntax: On the verbal morphology of some Alpine dialects11
Compounding: Morphology and/or Syntax?31
The Effect of Noun Incorporation on Argument Structure49
Lexical-Functional Morphology and the Structure of the Lexicon73
Somali as a Polysynthetic Language97
Dutch Verbal Prefixes: Meaning and form, grammaticalization and lexicalization121
The Irrealis in the Polish Language: A question of verbal moods, conjunctions or the modal particle by?137
II. Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics
Morphological and Syntactical Complexity in French Interrogative Predicates159
Integrating Pragmatics into the Grammar175
Subject, Nominative Case, Agreement and Focus195
The English Cleft Construction as a Focus Phrase217
Agreement, Pronominalization and Word Order in Pragmatically-Oriented Languages231
III. Morpho-Syntax and Semantics
Thematic-Role Assignment and Aspect in Italian Pronominal Verbs: A lexicological study253
Syntactic Optionality and Lexical Semantics: The case of English manner of motion verbs271
Labile Orders and Grammatical Functions: The functional representation of one-argument structures291
General Index307
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