<b>Essays on language function and language type dedicated to T. Givón.</b> Ed. by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra Thompson. Amsterdam &amp; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. Pp. vi, 478.

Abstract

1. Instead of an Introduction 2. From His Colleagues 3. His Publications 4. The Essays 5. Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology (by Bybee, Joan L.) 6. The Typology of Predicate Case Marking (by Comrie, Bernard) 7. Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories: Relator Nouns and Postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese (by DeLancey, Scott) 8. A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions (by Dixon, R.M.W.) 9. Are Grammatical Relations Universal? (by Dryer, Matthew S.) 10. Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis: Word Order Change in the Cariban Family (by Gildea, Spike) 11. Living in Three Languages (by Grinevald, Colette) 12. Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor (by Haiman, John) 13. The Misumalpan Causative Construction (by Hale, Kenneth L.) 14. On Attributive Possession in Kabiye (by Heine, Bernd) 15. When 'Grammar' and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source Conflicts (by Hopper, Paul J.) 16. A Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function (by Langacker, Ronald W.) 17. On Zero Anaphora (by Li, Charles N.) 18. Head-Marking and Objecthood (by Lichtenberk, Frantisek) 19. Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles (by Lord, Carol) 20. Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology (by Mithun, Marianne) 21. Versatile Nominalizations (by Noonan, Michael) 22. The Maasai External Possessor Construction (by Payne, Doris L.) 23. Voice in Seko Padang (by Payne, Thomas E.) 24. Mind, Code and Text (by Slobin, Dan I.) 25. Index