Index

• A-not-A questions 9, 113–114, 117, 130, 166–167, 172–176, 186–189, 295, 482, 489, 529

• adjunct 111–112, 114–118, 120–122, 124–129, 252–253, 258, 261, 279–280, 282, 303, 320, 338, 395, 405, 417, 424, 464, 491, 558

• adpositions 93, 95

• adverbial clauses 9, 75, 213, 411, 425, 427, 520–521, 534, 536

• Agree 32, 47, 52, 293, 296–298, 502, 518

• applicative 8, 123–124, 331–332, 336–337, 346–355, 357, 372–374, 376, 378–379, 381

• argument structure 111, 116, 122–124, 129, 149, 267, 287, 341, 344, 353, 548

• AxPart 77, 80–85, 88–89, 91–100, 104, 106

• ba-construction 2, 40, 116, 220, 222, 238, 240, 274–275, 383, 386

• backward predicate deletion 249, 254, 289

• bare roots 334–6, 341, 348–350

• binding hierarchy 21

• bouletic 193–194, 198, 201, 203, 208, 212

• cartography 501, 533

• CED 60, 125

• choice function 227–228, 238–239

• cluster 293, 296–299

• comparative deletion 252, 254–255, 257, 260, 262–263, 277

• comparatives 7, 89–91, 249–250, 252–259, 263, 265–266, 269–270, 275–280, 282–292

• phrasal comparatives 7, 252, 282

• clausal comparatives 7, 257, 282

• verbal comparatives 249, 278, 285–287

• differential comparatives 256

• subcomparatives 249, 257–263

• complex predicate constructions 265

• continuative marker 446–449, 451–452, 458, 474

• converb 395, 417–419, 423–424

• criterial checking 440, 442

• dative construction 10, 539–540, 548, 550

• definiteness 8, 155, 159, 240–241, 301–305, 307–308, 310, 312, 314, 317, 319–320, 324–325, 327–328

• Definiteness Effect 155

• degree word 293–297, 299

• deletion under identity 263

• demonstrative 5, 8, 82, 101–103, 230, 301–303, 305–310, 312–314, 316–320, 322–323, 325, 327–328, 564

• deontic 25, 165, 176–177, 179, 181–182, 193–194, 197–198, 201, 203, 205, 207–209, 211, 213–214, 402, 408–409, 420, 487, 498

• descriptive complement 6, 111–112

• Dhimal 457–458, 460

• directional construction 133, 149

• directive 7, 193, 196–205, 207–211, 446, 501–502

• discourse particle 9, 435, 501–502, 509–510, 512, 515, 521, 524

• disjunctive question 172, 480

• distributivity 219–220, 225–226, 240–242

• ditransitive 10, 129, 351, 363, 373, 380, 540

• dou 2, 7, 168–171, 178–179, 219–227, 229, 231–232, 237–241, 263, 274–275,

• double access 25, 64

• double object construction 10, 43, 226, 230, 240, 363, 375, 379, 383, 539

• embedded standards 249, 257–263, 289

• epistemic modals 26, 28, 165, 176, 181–182, 187, 202–203, 207, 408, 435, 487, 498–499

• evidentiality 4, 433, 437, 454, 472, 509

• exclamatives 9, 465–467, 502, 524

• expressives 439, 501

• the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC) 299, 473, 475

• FOFC 473

• finiteness 3, 5, 17–24, 26–28, 46–47, 55–57, 59–61, 63–64, 68–69, 176, 419–420

• Force 431, 435, 438, 442–443, 501–502, 509, 512, 518–520, 522–523, 529

• focus 7, 9, 35, 45–46, 48, 50–52, 54, 66, 153, 165–179, 183–189, 205–206, 293, 295–297, 318, 393, 399, 440, 491–492, 495–499,

• focus fronting 35, 45–46, 48, 51–52, 54, 66

• focus set calculation 166, 184, 189

• Galo 454–455, 471

• gei-object construction 539

• gerund 395, 424, 415

• grammaticalization 230, 303, 446, 448, 451, 458, 474, 482, 519, 540

• head dependency 7, 293–294, 297–299

• head movement 7, 165–166, 293, 296, 298–299

• high applicative (ApplH) 8, 331, 346–355

• ApplH 349–351, 353–354

• Hindi 8, 125, 127, 303, 319–320, 322–325, 327–328

• illocutionary force 9, 501, 509, 512, 520, 522

• imperative 193–194, 198–199, 201–204, 206, 208–211, 334, 435, 451, 502, 527, 529–530

• imperfective aspect 458–459, 472

• implicational complementation hierarchy (ICH) 21

• ICH 21, 24, 55–56, 59

• incompleteness effects 395–397, 414, 424

• indefinites 7, 181, 219–227, 229–230, 234–243

• Index! 8, 301, 303, 307, 310, 312, 327, 328

• inquisitiveness 500, 504

• inversion 128, 348, 358, 369–370, 372, 438

• Korean 7–8, 204, 303, 319–320, 322, 324–325, 327–328, 491, 500–501, 543

• Lisu 456, 471

• localizer 81, 84–86, 88, 95, 98, 102

• locative adverbial phrase 458–459

• logophoric control 193, 203, 207–208, 212

• manner adverbial 6, 111–112, 119, 127, 152

• markedness 332, 351, 547

• measure 77–80, 83–85, 88–94, 96–97, 100–101, 104–106, 250, 267, 313, 406

• mirative 9, 431–436, 438–442, 445–447, 453–458, 460–466, 468, 470, 472–474, 476–477

• mirativity 9, 431–433, 437–439, 442–445, 447, 453, 455

• modals 26, 31, 61, 165–189, 193–212, 408, 419–420, 435, 480, 484, 486–488, 497–499, 502, 515

• negation 19, 118, 121, 134, 194–196, 262, 295, 484, 495–496, 515

• NCA 332–338, 340–342, 344–345, 349–351, 353–354

• non-temporal S-le 296–297, 299

• non-veridicality 504

• object sharing serial verb construction 133

• obligatory deletion 298

• opacity 17, 20, 31, 35, 38, 42, 51–52, 55, 59–60, 66

• ordering source 181, 207–210

• Output Economy 166–167, 183, 185, 188–189

• participle 414–415, 417–418, 423–424

• place 77–85, 87–88, 93, 96–104, 106

• polarity 9, 167, 172–174, 262, 482, 486, 490

• possessive 95, 97, 358, 361–362, 373, 387, 416

• priming effect 547–548

• prohibitive 7, 193–197, 203–204, 208, 212

• pronominal theory of tense 17, 65

• referentiality 220, 225, 230, 234–235, 237, 240, 243

• rhetorical question 464–465

• selection 50–52, 56, 59, 68, 121–122, 129, 314, 327, 357–358, 386–390

• sentence completion task 543–544

• sentence-final particle 9–10, 17, 397, 400, 402–404, 412–413, 419, 432, 438, 509

• sequence of tense 68, 70

• serial verb construction 6, 10, 133, 392–393, 555–558, 562, 571–572

• skolem function 219, 225–230, 241–243

• speaker-oriented 9, 26, 31, 56, 65, 211, 466, 514, 518

• speaker’s commitment 530

• speaker’s coordinate 64–66, 68–69

• specificity 220, 223–224, 227, 234–236, 239–240, 242, 314

• speech act 211, 412, 414, 424, 431–432, 437, 439, 442–443, 473, 476–477, 479, 483, 501–503, 523, 525

• speech act domain 483, 501, 503

• split CP 205

• surprise 9, 431–434, 440, 447, 451–454, 458, 461, 463–468, 470, 472, 523, 532

• syntactic priming 542, 548

• syntactic representation 542, 547–548

• syntax-pragmatics interface 212, 483, 501

• Table model 10, 509–510, 524–525, 527, 531

• tense 2–3, 5–6, 17–18, 20, 22–23, 25, 28, 31, 46, 59, 62, 64–69, 134, 207, 293–294, 406–407, 414, 420, 424

• topic-comment 220, 225, 238

• unaccusative verb 136, 143–144, 157–158, 342

• universal quantifier mei 219, 222, 225, 243

• V-gei Construction 10, 539–541, 543–545, 547

• verb copying 33, 92, 265, 269, 276, 282–283

• verbal suffix 8, 17, 395, 397–405, 407–408, 413, 415, 417, 419–420, 422

• Wangmian sentences 361–362, 383–387

• word order 5, 78, 90, 104, 128–129, 147–148, 185, 347, 363, 413, 473, 509