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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Theoretical Premises | |
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| Overview | |
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| The functional-typological approach | |
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| Outline of the book | |
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| The Notion of Subordination | |
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| Background to the problem | |
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| The Continuum Approach | |
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| The Conceptual Approach | |
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| Towards a functional definition of subordination | |
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| The Coding of Subordination: Parameters for Cross-linguistic Research | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The form of the verb | |
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| The coding of participants | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| The Cross-linguistic Coding of Subordination: Methodological Premises | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Implicational generalizations | |
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| Language sampling | |
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| Complement Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Complement-taking predicates | |
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| Semantic features of complement relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of complement relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of complement relations and the semantics of complement-taking predicates | |
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| Data supporting the implicational hierarchies | |
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| Language data | |
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| Adverbial Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Adverbial relation types | |
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| Semantic features of adverbial relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of adverbial relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of adverbial relations and functional factors | |
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| Data supporting the implicational hierarchies | |
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| Language data | |
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| Relative Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of relative relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of relative relations and functional factors | |
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| Data supporting the implicational hierarchies | |
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| Language data | |
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| Comparison of Complement, Adverbial, and Relative Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Global hierarchies of subordination relations | |
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| Cross-linguistic coding of subordination relations and functional factors | |
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| Summary remarks | |
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| Data supporting the implicational hierarchies | |
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| The Coding of Subordination Relations: Functional Motivations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Syntagmatic economy and the Principle of Information Recoverability | |
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| Iconicity of independence | |
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| Iconicity of distance | |
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| Processes and things | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Correlations between Individual Morphosyntactic Phenomena | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Correlations between individual morphosyntactic phenomena | |
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| Explaining the correlation patterns: processes and things | |
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| Explaining the observed correlations: syntagmatic economy | |
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| A frequency hierarchy for the coding of subordination | |
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| Data supporting the correlation patterns | |
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| Conclusions and Prospects | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Sources of information on the languages in the sample | |
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| Genetic affiliation of the languages in the sample | |
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| Location of the languages in the sample | |
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| The constructions examined in the study | |
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| References | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Languages | |
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| Index of Authors | |