Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation

1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Typological studies; 3. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt); 4. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space (by Hagege, Claude); 5. On the diachrony of the 'Ethical Dative' (by Givon, T.); 6. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics; 7. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context (by Driem, George van); 8. The dinguist's dilemma: Regular and sporadic l/d interchange in Sino-Tibetan and elsewhere (by Matisoff, James A.); 9. Part III. TAME and case alignment; 10. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo: Historical origins and functional motivation (by Post, Mark W.); 11. Agent case marking in Sahaptian (by Beavert, Virginia); 12. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions; 13. The Kurtop -si construction: Converbs, clause-chains and verb serialization (by Hyslop, Gwendolyn); 14. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective (by Nguyen, Tam); 15. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar (by Genetti, Carol); 16. Part V. Functional motivation and extension; 17. Predicting reference form: A Pear Story Study of information status, thematic role and animacy in Meithei (Manipuri, Meiteiron) (by Chelliah, Shobhana L.); 18. Causation as "functional sink" in Northern Paiute (by Thornes, Tim); 19. The challenge of Maa 'Away' (by Payne, Doris L.); 20. Name index; 21. Language index; 22. Subject index