Index

• -DIK 137, 143

• -mA 73, 143, 156, 415, 417

• aboutness 278, 338, 340–342, 345–346, 356

• acaba149

• Actions Are Self-Propelled Movements328

• additive 98, 102–103, 112–113, 116, 128–129, 131, 188, 264, 426

• adjacent 23, 148, 179, 181, 183, 349, 421

• adults’ data 145–146

• adverb 6, 93–95, 97, 114, 116, 118–128, 178, 311

• adverb/postposition 6, 93–95, 114, 118–119, 121–124, 126–128

• Agul 123, 130

• Ainu 7, 295, 298–301, 303, 305, 310–311, 315–317, 323–328, 330–336

• Ainu Language Phonetic Materials (ALPM) 300–301, 304, 323–324, 329, 334, 336

• allocutive 23–28, 31

• Andi 6, 93–99, 101–104, 107–109, 112–114, 116, 118, 121–133

• Andic languages 102, 129–130

• animacy 240–243, 257, 261, 264, 269–271, 276–277, 281, 287, 290–291, 356

• Antonov 26, 31

• apprehensional utterances108

• approval 39, 45–46

• Arabic 26–27, 31, 98, 188, 190–191, 194, 196–198, 280, 290, 292

• Argument structure 16, 69, 245, 248, 264–265, 290

• Arta 235, 248, 265

• aspectual 116, 217, 326–327, 332, 418, 426

• audience-blind 203–204, 221–222, 224, 227

• Austin 56, 60, 398

• Avar 93, 95–96, 102, 108, 123–124, 126–127, 130, 422

• Avar-Andic languages 102, 130

• backchannel 375, 377, 379–381, 397, 399

• backgrounding 214, 408, 410

• Bagwalal 102, 122, 131

• bare wh 139–140

• Basque 26–27

• beginning-oriented conception 295, 327

• beginning-oriented episode-shift marker 308, 311, 313, 315–316

• beginning-oriented topic-shift marker 302–303, 321, 323, 325

• Beowulf 299, 305–309, 314–316, 334–335

• bilingual 95, 135–136, 138–139, 141, 145–148, 151, 153–154, 157–161, 196, 335
  • children’s data 145, 153, 158
  • data 146–148

• Botlikh 122, 132

• boundaries 13, 18, 21, 38, 67, 138, 148–149, 152, 158, 217–219, 225, 241, 291–292, 295, 297–298, 300–301, 305, 307, 369, 372–373, 377, 379, 381, 383, 386–387, 390, 394–395, 397, 431

• Brazilian Portuguese 62–63, 344, 349

• Buriat (Buryat) 21–22, 24, 28

• Castilian Spanish349

• categorical universalism 15, 19, 29

• chaining constructions 97, 102

• Chamalal 122, 127–128, 132

• Chechen 102, 131, 271, 292

• Chuvash 65–76, 78–79, 81–86, 88–89

• clause combining 132, 135, 138, 148, 160, 169, 175, 186, 189–190, 197–198, 430

• clause linkage 31, 167, 180, 185, 410, 412

• clause-final marker 123, 125

• clause-initial marker115

• co-present interaction144

• coding splits 272, 287, 291

• cohesion 1, 167, 174, 184, 187, 354, 356, 358, 360, 403, 412, 428–429

• communicative function of wh136

• comparative concept 6, 15, 405–406, 408

• Competition 65, 82, 85, 384

• complement clause 168, 176, 179, 190

• complement-taking predicate (CTP) 167–168, 175–176, 178–180, 193–194

• complementation 160, 167–168, 176, 178, 180, 182, 185, 191, 193, 196, 198

• complementizer 7, 88, 151, 160, 167–168, 175–176, 179, 180–181, 190–191, 193–194, 196–199, 224

• conditional wh-constructions139

• conduit metaphor 329, 335

• conjunction 167, 175, 181, 186–187, 191, 198, 324, 389

• connected discourse136

• connective 4, 94–95, 115–116, 124, 135, 137, 148, 177, 184–185, 406

• connectivity of clauses138

• consecutive 93–95, 99–104, 112–113, 115–116, 121, 123, 128, 262

• constructicography 38, 62

• construction 6–8, 20–21, 31–33, 35, 37–38, 40, 61–63, 67, 70–71, 74, 78, 123–124, 137, 139, 141–143, 146, 148–152, 158, 180, 201, 204, 207, 212, 214–215, 217, 219, 223, 226, 245, 249, 251, 362, 366, 403–406, 408, 410–412, 415, 419–425

• Construction Grammar 6, 20–21, 31–32, 35, 37–38, 40, 61–63

• context of use 338, 387, 393

• contrastive analysis 196, 365, 369, 371, 373–374, 386–387, 396–398

• contrastive relation346

• control over discourse topics and turn-taking141

• Conventionalization 81, 85, 219

• converb 87, 97, 101, 103, 115, 123–124, 129, 131, 159, 262, 288, 327, 423, 426

• conversation(al) 39–40, 60, 63, 105–106, 108, 126, 132, 136–137, 169, 172, 184, 193, 196, 198–199, 214, 225–226, 287, 295–297, 299–300, 302, 305, 311, 317–319, 320, 322–324, 326, 331–332, 335–336, 342, 356, 361–362, 366, 370–372, 374, 376, 384, 388, 393, 396, 398–399
  • discourse 296–297, 299–300, 305, 317, 319, 323, 332

• coordination 97–98, 101, 132, 186–187, 412, 430

• Cornillie 17–19, 32, 34, 61

• Corpus annotation 50, 233, 282

• Corpus-based 7, 47, 67, 87, 135, 231–232, 234, 236, 263, 265–267, 278, 291, 335, 337–341, 343, 354, 361, 363, 365, 369

• corpus-pragmatic135

• correspondence analysis 35, 50–51, 53–55

• counter-expectative function358

• Cypriot Greek 235, 264

• Dargwa 95, 235, 254

• declaratives 111, 203, 219

• deferential 202–207, 209–210, 220, 224–225

• definiteness 25, 87, 240, 251, 270–271, 274, 276–279, 281, 284, 286–288, 426

• Degand 17–19, 32, 34–35, 61, 373, 399

• Deictic 88, 148–149, 152, 158–159, 193, 225, 266, 369, 403–405, 423, 425–426, 429

• Dependency marker 403, 405, 423, 425

• Diewald 13, 18–19, 32, 38–39, 61, 430

• digressive 318, 335–336, 401

• direct speech 71, 87, 104, 136, 142, 146–147, 158, 172, 193

• directive constructions143

• disapproval 39, 44–46

• discourse cohesion 167, 403

• discourse formulae 6, 33, 35–45, 47–48, 56–61, 63

• discourse function 6–7, 21, 28, 61, 65, 67–68, 73, 82, 85, 137, 170, 174, 179, 183, 202, 292, 337–343, 346–349, 352, 355, 359–364, 370, 373, 379, 381, 385, 387, 409, 412

• discourse level 148, 175, 180, 337, 342, 344, 347

• discourse marker 1, 4, 6, 9, 16–20, 29, 32–33, 35, 37, 39–40, 58–59, 61, 88, 93–94, 125, 131–132, 167–168, 175, 194–199, 297, 301, 305–307, 310, 312–314, 318–319, 324, 336, 369–372, 378, 381, 388, 393–394, 398–399, 401

• discourse organisation 371–373, 379, 381, 385–386, 390, 394

• discourse particle 31–32, 93, 95, 125, 195, 370, 400

• discourse phenomena 1–7, 13, 17, 19, 29–30, 33, 65–66, 142, 194–195, 224, 233, 339, 344, 362, 364, 374, 398, 406, 421

• Discourse planning 233, 244, 258, 261

• discourse situation136

• discourse topic 179, 186, 231, 369, 381–382, 384–385, 387, 395–396

• discourse-sensitive typology 339, 363

• diye-constructions 137, 139–140

• Duration 65, 74–75, 79–80

• East Caucasian95

• East Tucanoan 7, 403, 405

• echo questions 139, 192

• elaboration 7, 167–170, 172, 174–175, 179–191, 193–194, 196–198, 202
  • clause 182, 193
  • marker 167, 188

• embedded clauses175

• embeddedness138

• emerging grammar139

• emotion 83, 87, 369–370, 380, 394, 399–400

• emphasis 6–7, 17–18, 87, 110, 127, 172, 175, 210–212, 217, 223–224, 231, 274, 276–277, 279, 297–298, 302, 311–312, 328–330, 354, 358–359, 379–380, 390–395, 426

• enclitic 93–95, 98, 102–104, 106, 121, 124, 126, 128–129, 274

• end-oriented 7, 295, 299, 303, 305, 314, 316–317, 323, 326–327, 331–332
  • conception 295, 299, 327, 331–332
  • episode-shift marker326
  • topic-shift marker 303, 323, 326, 331–332

• English 7, 16, 18–20, 28–31, 36–38, 44, 58, 60–62, 88–89, 95, 97, 99, 107, 112, 125–126, 128–129, 131–133, 168, 170, 185–188, 190, 193, 196, 199, 214, 216–217, 219, 225, 227, 235, 239, 242, 248, 263–264, 267–268, 278, 291, 293, 295–296, 298–299, 302–303, 305–307, 309–311, 315–323, 325–330, 332–345, 347, 349–352, 354–361, 363–376, 378–379, 381, 383, 387–401, 416, 429

• entrustment 7, 210, 213, 215, 223, 226

• epic 299, 305–306, 310, 312, 316, 335, 410

• episode 105, 202, 206–213, 220–221, 295–300, 304–318, 326–333, 335

• episode-shift 295, 297, 299–300, 304–318, 326–328, 330–333

• episode-shift marker 300, 304–305, 308–309, 311–316, 326–327, 330–332

• epistemicity46

• evaluative contexts137

• event 23, 42, 58, 62, 65, 78–79, 81, 94, 98, 101–102, 104–105, 109, 112–113, 117, 170, 180, 184–187, 190, 204, 231, 233, 237–238, 261–262, 295, 297–298, 305, 307, 310, 326–332, 348, 350, 383, 408, 424
  • conception 326, 328–332

• exclamations 140, 280

• exclamative 104, 109–111, 219

• explanatory discourse 296, 299, 319

• Expressive meaning67

• Fillmore 36, 38, 40, 61

• final particle 124–126, 132, 198, 226, 333

• finite clause 97, 101, 137, 177

• finite constructions 136–140, 142, 145–146, 148, 154

• finite independent constructions149

• finite wh-clauses139

• finiteness of a wh-construction148

• Fischer 18, 20–21, 30–32, 61, 195

• focal 171, 186, 273, 276, 278, 284, 286, 351, 353, 357–358

• focalization276

• focus 1, 7, 13–17, 36, 74, 87, 105, 126, 136, 141, 145, 158, 172, 182, 217–218, 232, 235–236, 238, 250, 257, 261, 265, 269–280, 282, 287–288, 290–292, 326–327, 338, 341, 347, 349, 351, 355, 357–358, 364, 366–368, 379, 395, 426

• foregrounding214

• fragmented and paratactic style144

• frame 32, 35–37, 39–52, 54, 56, 59, 61–63, 172, 198, 247–248, 335, 346

• free connective morphemes137

• free-flowing elicited Turkish conversations136

• French 18, 36, 61, 88, 188, 196–197, 334, 344, 348, 350, 361, 363, 365–368

• fronted wh-element151

• Functional analysis368

• functional-pragmatic 136–137, 160

• gender agreement 96, 120, 122, 124, 127–128

• genre 47, 188, 238, 299, 305, 310, 319, 338, 374, 376, 393, 396, 411

• genre-specificity 299, 305, 319

• givenness 272, 283–284, 286, 290, 342, 347, 358, 364, 366

• Godoberi 122, 124, 131–132

• Gospel of Luke 96, 98–99, 120, 123

• grammaticalization 2–4, 9, 39, 60–61, 86, 89, 93–94, 114, 119, 122–124, 128, 131–133, 183, 202, 218–219, 225, 227, 264, 270, 430

• Haspelmath 4, 9, 13–17, 21, 26–27, 30, 32–33, 38, 61, 122, 124, 131, 216, 225, 232, 247–248, 265, 269, 271–272, 291, 340, 367, 408, 428–429

• head direction parameter137

• head-final151

• hearer-directed 136, 138–139, 141

• Heikemonogatari 299, 305, 312–313, 336

• Heterogeneity 68, 82–83

• Hoava 287, 290

• honorification 7, 202–205, 214–215, 219, 221, 226–227

• humanness 231, 240, 247, 252, 257, 259–261, 281

• hwakyey203

• Iconicity 8, 216, 227, 337–338, 352, 354

• identifiability 269, 272, 277, 283–284, 341–342

• Ideophones 5–6, 8–9, 65, 81, 85, 87

• illocutionary 35, 39, 41, 47, 56, 58, 62–63, 136, 138, 149, 175, 205, 345, 348–349, 354

• imperative 26, 71, 87, 97, 101, 104, 108–109, 112, 129, 154, 156–159, 195, 203, 206, 208, 219, 224, 275, 388, 391, 395, 426

• importunity 7, 210, 212, 223

• in situ 137, 151–152

• inceptive 327, 332

• indefinite 251, 262

• independent utterances 21, 72, 139

• index placement276

• Indexicality 71, 89, 227

• indicative matrix verbs156

• indirect speech 71, 87, 137, 143–144

• indirect speech complements143

• informal polite 202–206, 208–210, 220–221

• Information structure 5, 7, 9, 104, 197, 265–266, 269, 272, 278, 290–293, 337–338, 344, 347, 355, 359, 362–363, 366–368, 429

• information-packaging148

• informative 234, 320, 339

• Ingush 102, 131

• integration 77–78, 81, 135, 138, 144, 149, 157–158, 386, 388–389, 391–392, 394–396

• intensifying function 65, 79–80, 85

• Intensity 65, 74–75, 80–81, 83, 380, 427

• inter-linguistic comparison 339, 397

• interactional context 137, 205

• interjections 1, 5–9, 65–68, 70–89, 322, 369–373, 378, 387–389, 395–396, 398–401

• interpersonality203

• interrogative meaning139
  • mood156
  • particle105
  • utterances 104, 107
  • words135

• intersubjectivivity 1, 131, 201, 203, 213, 222–223

• intimate 27–28, 203–208, 210, 212, 220–224

• Intonation 20, 28, 67–68, 75–76, 80, 126, 201, 204, 208, 216, 218, 223, 280, 320, 367, 370, 376–378, 384, 401, 411–412
  • contour 201, 204, 208, 216, 218, 223, 377, 411
  • differential75

• Intra-linguistic variation337

• irritation 208, 210–212, 221, 223

• Israeli Hebrew362

• Italian 7, 18, 60, 184, 188, 196, 278, 337–346, 349–361, 363–366, 372, 401

• Jamsay 276–277, 291

• Japanese 7, 18–19, 26–27, 38, 62, 202, 204, 214–217, 224–227, 295, 298–299, 302–303, 305, 310, 312, 314–318, 322–328, 330–336, 344, 365

• Jinghpaw 235, 265

• juxtaposed finite constructions 136, 138, 140, 145–146, 154

• juxtaposed finite wh-constructions 139, 141, 145, 148–149

• Kalamang 235, 268

• kamuyyukar310

• Khinalug95

• ki 137–140, 142, 145–146, 149–150, 156, 162, 227, 303

• Kutune Shirka 299, 305, 310–311, 314–316

• Lak 95, 102

• language change 145, 161, 199, 430

• language contact 135–136, 280, 292, 403, 405, 421–422, 427

• Latin 22, 25, 27

• Left dislocation 7, 273, 337, 339, 351, 366–368

• left marked constituent 338, 340–341, 344–345, 347–348, 351, 353–358

• left-branching 97, 151

• lexical typology 6, 16, 35–36, 41, 47, 59, 62–63, 268

• Lezgic languages 121, 130

• Light verb 403–405, 423, 425

• logical dimension 342, 347–349, 358, 364

• Logophoricity 71, 87–88

• Makasar 274, 291

• Maltese 269–270, 278–287, 289–292

• Mandarin 188, 198, 235, 255, 268

• marked structures 337, 340, 351

• markedness 340, 352, 354, 363, 367

• matrix
  • clause 176, 192
  • verb156

• meaning change 122–125

• Medieval Japanese 305, 315

• metaphor 14–15, 125, 324, 328–329, 332, 335

• Middle Bavarian 274–275

• mikan-construction 214–215, 217

• MJS 202, 204–209, 211–215, 218–224

• modal 16–21, 23, 28–32, 34, 61, 131, 149, 288, 369–370, 373, 379–380, 390, 393, 397

• modern Greek 27–28

• monolingual 138, 141, 145–146, 148, 151, 154, 157–158, 161

• mood 156, 158, 161, 262, 278, 292

• morphosyntactic change 122–125

• Moving
  • Observer329
  • speaker329
  • speech329
  • Time329
  • -speaker 329–330, 332–333
  • -speech 329–333

• multiclausal constructions 94, 100–101

• multifunctionality 132, 190, 198, 343, 370–371, 373, 397

• Multilevel analysis 337, 339, 349

• Nafsan 235, 267

• Nakh languages102

• Nakh-Daghestanian languages 97–98, 109, 113, 121, 123, 126, 129

• narrative 65, 67–68, 78–79, 81, 87, 101, 142, 234, 237–238, 247, 250–252, 257, 259, 264–267, 283, 288, 295–297, 299–300, 304–308, 309–310, 312, 316, 319, 326, 329, 331–332, 334–335, 376, 384–385, 399–400, 403, 411, 429–432

• negation 35, 39, 42–48, 50–52, 54, 56–57, 59–60, 62, 87, 130, 159, 276–277, 289, 292, 342, 353, 427

• negative attitude 201, 221

• news 57, 112, 130, 168, 208, 212, 219, 319, 350, 389

• non-imperative 109, 154, 156, 158

• non-voluntative 156, 158

• nonfinite
  • complement clauses 143, 145
  • constructions145
  • subordinate constructions139
  • subordinating suffixes137

• nonsubordinate137

• Northern Kurdish 235, 265

• object of perception137

• Old English 305–306, 310, 315, 334–335

• omission 269, 388–390, 392–396, 419

• parallel corpora 36, 47–48, 236, 267, 397

• paratactifying effect149

• particles 16–22, 24, 27–34, 39–40, 58, 61, 63, 93, 95, 104, 112, 115, 125–128, 131–132, 149, 195, 201–202, 215, 225, 334, 370–372, 378, 398, 400

• Pause 67, 77, 80–81, 86, 235, 243, 280–281, 377

• pejoration 7, 210, 212, 219, 222, 226

• periphrasing 144, 147

• Persian 137, 234–235, 248, 263

• phase 295, 300–301, 305, 316, 319, 325–326, 332

• phonological change124

• Pietrandrea 17–19, 32, 34, 61

• polar question 22, 24, 28–30, 32, 44–46, 57–58, 130

• polarity focus 349, 358, 366

• Polish 7, 22, 35, 37, 42, 48, 50, 52–53, 167–169, 188, 190–194, 197

• politeness 1, 4–5, 8, 203–205, 214–215, 219–221, 224

• Portuguese 62–63, 344, 349

• postposed 124, 148, 151

• postposition 6, 93–95, 97, 114, 117–119, 121–124, 126–128, 311

• Pragmatic
  • Corpus Analysis 136, 160
  • markedness 340, 363
  • markers 18, 31–32, 61, 89, 93, 126, 133, 195–197, 226, 297, 317, 334, 372, 399–400
  • salience343
  • topic 345, 347–348, 356 ; see also topic
  • marked354

• pragmemes 40, 60

• preposed 117, 142, 151–152

• Preposing 337, 339, 351, 368

• presentative function 110, 358, 360

• primary interjections 67, 378

• procedural characteristics149

• proem 306, 308–309

• propositional content 30, 144

• propositions 143, 210, 412

• prosody 67–68, 74–75, 77–78, 80–81, 83, 85–86, 88–89, 125, 128, 135–137, 144, 149, 157–158, 184, 218, 237, 243, 250, 273, 281, 338–339, 341, 344–346, 351, 353, 363–365, 368, 375, 377, 401
  • contour 75, 345–346, 353
  • criteria136
  • integration 78, 81, 135, 157–158
  • properties157
  • unit125

• Proto-Andic122

• questionnaire 40–41, 47, 50

• questions 6, 14, 20–21, 23, 28–29, 32–33, 44–46, 56–59, 93, 104–107, 109, 126, 128, 136, 139, 148, 160, 175, 178, 190, 192, 195, 233–234, 238, 244, 276, 280, 317–318, 333, 373, 386, 390, 409

• quotative 18, 65–75, 78, 80–81, 83, 85, 87–89, 113–114, 130, 169–170, 172, 188, 191, 193, 197–198, 333, 403, 405, 419, 421–422, 425, 427
  • function 65, 67–68, 74, 78, 80, 83, 85, 172
  • marker 69–70, 73–74, 87, 113–114
  • particle70
  • verb 69–71, 73, 87, 403, 405, 419, 421–422, 425

• realisation 381, 385, 387, 392, 394–396

• Recapitulative constructions 403, 406, 415–416, 419, 425

• referent 7, 27, 119, 231, 233, 237, 239–242, 244–245, 247–262, 267–272, 274, 276–284, 286–288, 341–342, 345–348, 355–358, 367, 380
  • introduction 231, 233, 237, 242, 244–245, 248–251

• reinforcement 116, 216

• relevance 32, 169, 172, 196, 199, 215, 226, 243, 252, 341, 345–346, 355, 372, 400

• repair 264, 377, 381, 383, 385, 392, 394, 397, 399

• repetition 8, 79, 159, 192, 201–203, 205, 211, 216–217, 221, 223, 225, 227, 245, 362, 403–404, 408–410, 415–416, 424, 427

• reported speech 6, 65–75, 77–78, 80–81, 83, 85–86, 88–89, 148, 160–161, 377, 381, 386, 390–394, 397, 403, 405, 419, 421, 425

• resumptive pronoun 338, 340, 344–345, 351–352, 355

• retrospective contrastive 93, 95, 112, 125–126, 128

• rhetorical relation 169, 181, 189

• Rhetorical Structure Theory 169, 189–190, 198–199

• Russian 19, 21–22, 35, 37–38, 42–44, 46–48, 50–52, 58, 60, 62, 87, 93, 95, 99–100, 107, 126–127, 132, 188, 198

• Russian Constructicon 38, 62

• Ruuli 269–270, 278, 280–286, 288, 291, 293

• Sanzhi Dargwa 235, 254, 264

• sarcasm 185, 212–213, 223

• Searle 41, 63, 217

• secondary interjections 86, 378

• segmentation 21, 33, 61, 339, 343, 365–366

• semantic map 36, 41, 63, 268

• Semantic relation 357–358, 408, 412

• semantic topic 347–348, 356–358

• sentence-ender 203–210, 212, 220–224

• sentence-final particle226

• sequential 93–95, 100, 102, 104, 112–113, 115–116, 121, 123–126, 128–130, 179, 318, 406, 408, 412, 427

• Serbian 34–35, 37, 42, 48, 50, 54–55

• short utterances 136, 148

• Slovene 37, 42, 48, 50, 54–56, 60, 63

• söyle 135–136, 138, 141–152, 154–158, 162

• Spanish 7, 38, 88, 344, 349–350, 366, 369, 371–375, 387–401, 416

• specific knowledge deficit 136, 139

• specificity 8, 276–277, 279, 286, 299, 319

• speech
  • act 6, 25, 37, 39–47, 56–59, 61–63, 104, 175, 178, 203, 208, 222, 227, 348
  • complements143
  • reports 6, 73, 83, 100, 112–114
  • setting 317, 320, 322, 325

• spoken discourse data 7, 135

• spoken language 135–138, 142, 144, 148, 151, 168, 235–236, 238, 263, 265–267, 282, 287, 349, 365, 368, 374

• spoken registers148

• spontaneous speech 98, 169, 282, 349–350, 352, 354, 365, 399

• stance 7, 125, 172, 201, 210, 212, 216, 227, 341, 359

• standard variety 188, 339, 350

• states of affairs 143, 245

• style-mixing205

• subepisode 297, 305, 307, 310, 312

• subjunctors 136, 143, 160

• subordinating conjunction 167, 175, 324

• subordination 71, 97–98, 102–104, 123, 130, 138–140, 143, 167, 175, 179, 192–193, 198, 218, 408, 412, 429

• subordinators 137, 141, 160, 167

• subtopic297

• Summary constructions 403, 421, 423–425

• surprise 39, 79, 81, 83, 185, 207, 210, 223, 322, 370, 379–380, 396–397, 400

• syntactic complement149

• syntactic constructions 148, 261

• syntactic integration 138, 149

• syntactic juxtaposition137

• syntactic markedness 340, 352, 354, 363

• syntactic subordination 138–139

• syntactic transitions148

• syntactically integrated149

• syntacticization 102–103

• syntax-discourse transition149

• syntax-prosody interface 339, 364

• Tabasaran 235, 263

• Tail-head linkage 403–406, 408–415, 419–425, 429–432

• temporal adverbial 297, 307–308, 310–311, 314, 331

• Teop 235, 245–246, 250, 266

• terminative 327, 332, 427

• text cohesion174

• textual prominence 337, 352, 356, 360–361

• thematic progression 342, 347–348, 357–358, 364, 366

• Thematic prominence 231, 251–252, 256

• Tindi 122, 127–128, 132

• token frequency 252–253, 258

• Tondano 234–235, 248, 263–264

• topic 1–2, 4–5, 7–9, 29, 46, 59, 68, 105, 129, 136–137, 141, 143, 179, 186, 191, 194, 197, 224, 231, 234, 247, 251–252, 254, 262, 264–266, 268–270, 272–273, 276–279, 281–283, 286–287, 289–290, 295–305, 317–338, 341–349, 352–369, 372, 379, 381–385, 387, 394–396, 401, 405, 409, 427
  • boundaries 295, 298, 369, 372, 381, 387
  • changes 317–318, 323, 331, 335
  • of conversation 105, 137
  • transition 381–382, 387
  • -closing 319–320, 322–323
  • -continuity282
  • -marking function 337–338, 342, 352
  • -opening 319, 322–323, 394
  • -worthiness 281–282

• topic-shift 295, 297–305, 317–327, 331–332, 381
  • conception 319, 321–323, 325–326, 331
  • marker 297, 299–304, 318–326, 321, 323–325, 331–332

• topicality 247, 252, 256, 260, 269–272, 277–278, 281–282, 288, 291, 338, 340–341, 360

• topicalizing function 256, 355–358

• transition 139, 148–149, 168, 295, 299–303, 305, 311–317, 320–321, 323, 325–326, 331–332, 336, 381–382, 387

• transition-oriented 302–303, 305, 312–317, 321, 323, 325–326, 331–332
  • episode-shift marker 312, 315–316
  • topic-shift marker 302, 321, 323, 325–326, 332

• translation 20, 50, 94, 96, 98–99, 107, 120, 123, 195, 235, 237, 239, 306, 309, 312, 314–316, 372–375, 387–396, 398, 400

• Tsezic languages 95–96, 413, 422, 428

• Tulil 235, 239, 243, 262, 266

• Turkish-German bilingual 135, 160

• turn 136, 139, 359, 386, 359

• Udi 276, 291

• unambiguous 151, 169, 182

• uncontroversial information 30, 33, 36, 62, 99, 111, 132

• underdifferentiation147

• utterances 1, 21, 40, 62, 67, 72, 104, 107–110, 136, 138–141, 145–148, 161, 170, 172, 177, 185, 193, 196, 205, 219, 296–297, 317–318, 345, 349, 369, 372, 391
  • boundary 138, 148–149, 158
  • -initial 22, 137, 190–191
  • -internal break150
  • -internal level137

• uwepekere310

• Vera’a 234–235, 239, 241–242, 248, 267

• Verbs of speaking 66, 69

• verba dicendi 135–139, 140–142, 145, 147–151, 158, 162

• Verbatim repetition 404, 408, 415

• verbs of saying135

• vocative 25–28, 31–32, 130

• voluntative 154, 156–159

• Wan 65–75, 78, 81–85, 88–89

• wh-
  • clause 138, 148
  • connectivity158
  • construction 135, 138–141, 143–152, 157–159
  • elements 137–138
  • movement137
  • subordinator status 148, 152

• word order 5, 28–29, 34, 66, 74, 85, 234, 266, 290, 292, 340, 344, 352, 354, 358, 360, 363–364, 416

• written texts 129, 339, 342, 346, 348, 352, 354–355, 358, 364, 411

• Yagua 273–275, 292

• Zargulla 275–276, 289