Table of contents
Introductionix
List of publicationsxv
Section I: Transitivity and voice
Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-Germanic3
How many Transitivisers are in Kope?49
Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer Evidence65
The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian Evidence77
Section II: Clausal modality
The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral Narratives103
On the German werden Future119
The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic139
Section III: Typology and discourse categories
The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation153
A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology179
Section IV: Language and culture
Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture213
Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland235
Section V: Functionality
Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production247
Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’275
“Lice he no good”: on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin309
Form and Meaning in Morphology319
Subject Index345
List of contributors and their academic affiliations351
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