TOPICS INDEX 565
periphery 5-6, 9, 40-41, 121, 123, 152,
237, 536, 553-54, 557-58
phonology 465-69
pivot construction (Mandarin) 199-201,
222, 228-29
pivot, syntactic 56-69, 75-88, 91, 125,
132, 134-35, 155, 171-72, 329, 334,
385, 425
hierarchy of markedness of choice
for 59, 68-69, 73, 75-77, 80-82,
84-85, 126, 148
pragmatic 65-67, 91-92, 325, 329,
331, 334, 352-61
semantic 65, 329, 357-61
possession 391-92, 397-99,
possessor ascension 53-54, 56
pragmatics 2, 24, passim
Gricean 24-25, 144
precore slot [PCS] 6-7,12-16, 22, 76, 78,
81-83, 99, 142-43, 148-51, 156, 382,
425
prepositions (see adpositions)
presentational construction 26, 60, 97,
157
presupposition (pragmatic) 23-29
projection grammar 11-12, 19-20, 30-33,
115
constituent projection 11-12, 30,
115
focus structure projection 30-33,
121
operator projection 11-12, 30, 115
prosody (see stress)
purpose constructions 175-76, 178-85,
purposive 254-55, 301-7, 519-20, 524-28
Q
questions
indirect 188-92
WH-questions 15, 27, 29, 31-32, 60,
76, 78, 82-83, 89-91, 97-100, 137,
140-51
constraints on 99-100, 137,
140-47
yes-no questions 137-41, 146
constraints on 138-41
R
raising 55, 57, 131-37, 329, 337, 339
rationale constructions 175-78
reference-dominated 235-36
reference maintenance 236, 482-84, 489-
90
reflexivization 84-87, 329-31
Relational Grammar 2-4, 44, 50, 66,
433-34, 460, 478, 500, 536
relative clause 104, 123-24, 138-42, 147,
150, 483
resultative construction 54, 203-5, 213-
14, 217, 225-29
S
serial verb construction 197-208, 213-29,
239, 248-52, 257
speech act verbs 173-74, 187-92
split-intransitivity 93-97, 157, 433-62
status operator 8-9
stress 25, 27-28, 91
structure
relational 3, 65, 100, 152
non-relational 3, 7, 100, 152
subjacency (see WH-questions, con
straints on)
subject 25-33, 43-44, 49-50, 58-65, 236,
239, 324-28, 385, 413-14, 425
inverted 28, 92-97
subordinate clause 240, 249, 265, 270,
542-44, 554-55
adverbial clause 101, 104, 115, 120,
123, 138-42, 150
prepositional (Nootka) 239, 247-48,
257
switch-function 236
switch-reference 62-64, 101-6, 112-13,
483-84
anticipatory 263, 268
reminiscent 263, 268
Τ
Tagmemics 536
tense 7-9, 101-4, 106, 112-16, 244-45,
260, 262, 269, 471-73, 537-40, 544-46,
548-54, 556-58