The Pragmatics of Word Order : Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction -- 1.1. Genetic and typological affiliations -- 1.2. Demography and ethnography -- 1.3. Previous linguistic work on Peba-Yaguan -- 1.4. Data for the current study -- Chapter Two. Constituent Order and Order Correlations -- 2.1. Observations of constituent order co-occurrences -- 2.2. The verb initial norm (VIN) -- 2.3. Selected theoretical approaches accounting for word order correspondences -- 2.4. Identification of basic constituent order -- 2.5. Towards an adequate constituent order typology -- Chapter Three. Clausal Phenomena -- 3.1. Major structural clause types -- 3.2. Impersonals and functionally related constructions -- 3.3. Auxiliaries -- 3.4. Second position clitics -- 3.5. Causation and desideration -- 3.6. Parataxis -- 3.7. Negatives and modals -- 3.8. Questions -- 3.9. Comparatives and equatives -- 3.10. Coordination and alternative relations -- 3.11. Complex sentences -- 3.12. Summary -- Chapter Four. Noun and Postpositional Phrase Phenomena -- 4.1. Bound modifying roots -- 4.2. Determination of head versus modifier within noun phrases -- 4.3. Order of head noun and descriptive modifier in text -- 4.4. Complex modifying phrases -- 4.5. Genitives -- 4.6. Postpositional phrases -- 4.7. Summary -- Chapter Five. Noun Classification and Nominalization -- 5.1. Derivational uses of classifiers -- 5.2. Inflectional uses of classifiers -- 5.3. Anaphora and classifiers -- 5.4. Theoretical status of Yagua classifiers -- Chapter Six. The Verb Phrase and Related Issues -- 6.1. Verbal nexus -- 6.2. Adverbs -- 6.3. Subject - object asymmetries: Evidence for a verb phrase containing the object? -- 6.4. Incorporation -- 6.5. An overview of verbal morphology -- 6.6. The instrumental/comitative -ta -- 6.7. Morphological causatives with -tániy -- 6.8. Summary.

Chapter Seven. Pragmatic Factors Motivating Order Variation -- 7.1. General pragmatic structure of Yagua clauses -- 7.2. The pragmatically marked nucleus -- 7.3. Function of the PM' component -- 7.4. Functions of the PM component -- 7.5. Summary of pragmatically marked types -- 7.6. Frequency distribution of syntactic constituent orders -- 7.7. Relative order of direct objects and obliques -- 7.8. Summary -- Chapter Eight. Constituent Order in Yagua: Conclusions and Implications -- 8.1. Arguments in favor of SVO as basic -- 8.2. Arguments against SVO as basic -- 8.3. Summary of typological traits -- 8.4. Implications for head-dependent ordering principles and Hawkins' Universals -- 8.5. Yagua as a head marking language -- Appendix 1: Lagarto (Alligator) Text -- Appendix 2: Phonology -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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