Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The editors -- The authors -- Preface -- Introduction -- A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The absolute construction in Romance -- 3. The absolute construction in Basque -- 4. Reduced relative clauses in Romance -- 5. Reduced relative clauses in Basque -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Some argument-structure properties of 'give' in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dominance of the indirect object construction in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia -- 3. Syntactic primacy and ditransitive constructions -- 3.1 Indexing of the object in the verb -- 3.2 Advancement to subject under passivization -- 3.3 Constituent order -- 3.4 Suppletion -- 4. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The rise of grammatical relations -- 3. Early ideas on grammatical relations and agreement -- 4. Problems with grammatical relations -- 4.1 Brother-in-law' agreement -- 4.2 Back' agreement -- 4.3 Possessor phrases -- 5. A typology of agreement using grammatical relations -- 5.1 Thematic roles -- 5.2 Communicative functions -- 6. The role of case -- 7. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Causatives in Agul -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal types -- 2.1 Periphrastic 'do'-causatives -- 2.1.1 Lexical distribution -- 2.1.2 Case assignment -- 2.1.3 A note on apudelative -- 2.1.4 Syntax and morphosyntax -- 2.1.5 More on case marking of the Causee -- 2.2 Compound 'do'-causatives -- 2.2.1 Adjectives -- 2.2.2 Nouns and bound stems -- 2.2.3 Statives -- 2.2.4 Non-stative verbs -- 2.2.5 Morphosyntax -- 2.2.6 Do'-compounds: an overview -- 2.3 Labile verbs.

2.3.1 Intransitive labile or prodrop? -- 2.3.2 Semantics -- 2.3.3 Labile derivation -- 2.4 Lexical causatives -- 2.5 Semantically irregular causatives -- 3. Semantic contrasts -- 4. Overview and east caucasian perspective -- Abbreviations -- References -- Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the prototypical clause features -- 2.1 Word order -- 2.2 Argument structure -- 3. Information structuring -- 4. Possessive markers and information structuring -- 4.1 O-V (objective) conjugation -- 4.1.1 Structure and motivating factors -- 4.1.2 Word order/syntactic flexibility -- 4.1.3 Control over reflexivization -- 4.1.4 O-Focus clauses, Q/A sequences -- 4.2 Embedded non-finite clauses -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hierarchies -- 3. Preliminaries -- 4. Minimize domains -- 5. Minimize forms -- 6. Maximize on-line processing -- 7. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The particle da -- 2.1 Candidate position #1 -- 2.2 Candidate position #2 -- 2.3 Candidate position #3 -- 2.4 Candidate position #4 -- 3. Motivating the uses of da -- 4. The construction of narrative -- 5. Da "density" - towards an indigenous characterization of style -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- On the hierarchy of structural convergencein the Amdo Sprachbund* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types and levels of interactive relationships -- 3. Sources of convergent features -- 4. Convergence and non-convergence -- 5. Ergative and accusative in Amdo -- 6. Amdo as a typological laboratory -- Abbreviations -- References -- Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors -- 1. Introduction.

2. Non-dynamic situations -- 3. Dynamic situations -- 4. A pyramid-like figure -- 4.1 Level A: Markerless constructions -- 4.2 Level B: Simple case suffixes -- 4.3 Level C: Composite case suffixes -- 4.4 Level D: Simple postpositions -- 4.5 Level E: Complex postpositions -- 5. Modern northeastern turkic relator systems -- 6. Spatial deixis -- 7. Contact influence -- 8. Spatial relators and predicate types -- 9. Conclusions -- Abbreviations in glosses -- References -- What's in the head of head-marking languages? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Marking of semantic roles -- 3. Athabaskan -- 4. Core arguments and marking of their roles in athabaskan -- 5. Terminology based on grammatical relations is misguided -- 6. Dative -- 7. Oblique -- 8. Alternative approaches -- 9. Beyond athabaskan and head-marking -- 10. Conclusion -- Abbreviations in glosses -- References -- Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems -- 2.1 Causative and transitive -- 2.1.1 Transitive as including CAUSE -- 2.1.2 Causer and agent -- 2.2 Different kinds of causative -- 2.3 Causative and passive -- 3. Proposal -- 3.1 Causative and transitive -- 3.1.1 EC over RE -- 3.1.2 np2 in RE -- 3.2 Different kinds of causative -- 3.3 Causative and passive -- 3.3.1 EC over RE -- 3.3.2 np2 in RE -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chimariko -- 3. Yana -- 4. Yurok -- 5. Karuk -- 5. Mechanisms leading to convergence -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Three takes on grammatical relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two points of divergence -- 2.1 Restricted neutralization -- 2.2 The scope of GRs -- 3. The typologies of GRs -- 3.1 Types of GRs recognized -- 3.1.1 The Subject -- 3.1.2 Direct objects -- 3.2 The strength of GRs.

4. The typology of languages in terms of GRs -- 5. Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt -- 1. Aspect, quantification and event structure -- 1.1 On aspect and aspectual domain -- 1.2 Approaches on describing argument and event structures -- 1.3 On the interaction between aspect and quantification -- 2. On derivation of verbs in Finnish and Udmurt -- 3. Aspectual domain of predicates and aspectual sentence types -- 4. On interaction between quantification and aspectual domain -- 5. On the relationships between verbal derivation and quantifying adverbs -- 6. Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- References -- Indexes -- 1.1 Terms and concepts -- 1.2 Names of languages and language groups -- 1.3 Biographical names -- 1.4 Selected geographical names.