Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Part I. Introduction by the Editor; 3. Editor's introduction; 4. Part II. Verbs, argument structure and transitivity; 5. "Saying" verbs in Spanish: Deepening the lexical semantics description (by Ibanez Cerda, Sergio); 6. Split intransitivity in Japanese revisited (by Toratani, Kiyoko); 7. Reintroducing inverse constructions in Japanese: The deictic verb kuru "to come" in the paradigms of argument encoding (by Koga, Hiroaki); 8. Transitivity in Kabardian (by Matasovic, Ranko); 9. Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account? (by Haspelmath, Martin); 10. Fluid transitivity and generalized semantic roles (by Nakamura, Wataru); 11. Part III. Syntactic and morphological categories; 12. Unification and separation in a functional theory of morphology (by Martin Arista, Javier); 13. Modality in RRG: Towards a characterisation using Irish data (by Nolan, Brian); 14. RPs and the nature of lexical and syntactic categories in Role and Reference Grammar (by Van Valin Jr., Robert D.); 15. "Floating plurals", prodrop and agreement - an optimality-based RRG approach (by Kailuweit, Rolf); 16. Where is the precore slot? Mapping the layered structure of the clause and German sentence topology (by Diedrichsen, Elke); 17. Part IV. Syntax, pragmatics and prosody; 18. A prosodic projection for Role and Reference Grammar (by O'Connor, Rob); 19. Is Role and Reference Grammar an adequate grammatical theory for punctuation? (by Bellosta von Colbe, Valeriano); 20. The interplay of focus structure and syntax: Evidence from two sister languages (by Bentley, Delia); 21. How missing is the missing verb?: The verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese (by Shimojo, Mitsuaki); 22. Predication and reference in specificational sentences - functions of English noun phrases (by Pavey, Emma); 23. Part V. The analysis of complex sentences; 24. Alternative expressions of 'want' complements (by Guerrero, Lilian); 25. An RRG approach to French complementation patterns: Some operator constraints on the logical structure (by Morita, Takahiro); 26. Complementizer-gap phenomena: Syntactic or pragmatic constraints? (by Lowenadler, John); 27. Wari' Intentional State Constructions (by Everett, Daniel L.); 28. Part VI. Neurolinguistic and computational aspects of RRG; 29. Unmarked transitivity: A processing constraint on linking (by Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina); 30. Parsing for Role and Reference Grammar (by Guest, Elizabeth); 31. A Role-Lexical Module (RLM) for Biblical Hebrew: A mapping tool for RRG and WordNet (by Winther-Nielsen, Nicolai); 32. Index of languages; 33. Index of subjects