Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I. Introduction by the Editor
Editor's introduction
Part II. Verbs, argument structure and transitivity
"Saying" verbs in Spanish: Deepening the lexical semantics description
Split intransitivity in Japanese revisited
Reintroducing inverse constructions in Japanese: The deictic verb kuru “to come” in the paradigms of argument encoding
Transitivity in Kabardian
Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?
Fluid transitivity and generalized semantic roles
Part III. Syntactic and morphological categories
Unification and separation in a functional theory of morphology
Modality in RRG: Towards a characterisation using Irish data
RPs and the nature of lexical and syntactic categories in Role and Reference Grammar
“Floating plurals”, prodrop and agreement – an optimality-based RRG approach
Where is the precore slot? Mapping the layered structure of the clause and German sentence topology
Part IV. Syntax, pragmatics and prosody
A prosodic projection for Role and Reference Grammar
Is Role and Reference Grammar an adequate grammatical theory for punctuation?
The interplay of focus structure and syntax: Evidence from two sister languages
How missing is the missing verb? The verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese
Predication and reference in specificational sentences – functions of English noun phrases
Part V. The analysis of complex sentences
Alternative expressions of 'want' complements
An RRG approach to French complementation patterns: Some operator constraints on the logical structure
Complementizer-gap phenomena: Syntactic or pragmatic constraints?
Wari’ Intentional State Constructions
Part VI. Neurolinguistic and computational aspects of RRG
Unmarked transitivity: A processing constraint on linking
Parsing for Role and Reference Grammar
A Role-Lexical Module (RLM) for Biblical Hebrew: A mapping tool for RRG and WordNet
Index of languages
Index of subjects
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