Essays on Language Function and Language Type

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