Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse

1. Introduction (by Bybee, Joan L.); 2. Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions (by Bybee, Joan L.); 3. Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class? (by Comrie, Bernard); 4. Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English (by Fillmore, Charles J.); 5. Denial and the construction of conversational turns (by Ford, Cecilia E.); 6. On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world (by Fox, Barbara A.); 7. The symmetry of counterfactuals (by Haiman, John); 8. Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations (by Hennesy, Pelin Engin); 9. Hendiadys and auxiliation in English (by Hopper, Paul J.); 10. 'Sentence' in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 11. Some issues concerning the origin of language (by Li, Charles N.); 12. Are subordinate clauses more difficult? (by Lord, Carol); 13. Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view (by Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M.); 14. Overwrought utterances: 'Complex sentences' in a different sense (by Schegloff, Emanuel A.); 15. Publications by Sandra A. Thompson; 16. Language index; 17. Name index; 18. Subject index