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List of tables | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
Abbreviations and notation | p. xi |
Kiowa phonemes and orthography | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What this book is about | p. 1 |
The Kiowa language | p. 3 |
Historical sketch | p. 3 |
Grammatical sketch | p. 5 |
Sources and methodology | p. 22 |
Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis | p. 25 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
Grammatical functions and fixity of order | p. 25 |
Definitions and history | p. 26 |
Baker's macroparametric approach | p. 29 |
Derivation of nonconfigurational properties | p. 33 |
Problems | p. 46 |
Conclusion | p. 59 |
The clausal spine | p. 61 |
Introduction | p. 61 |
The clausal mirror | p. 63 |
Suffixal morphology | p. 63 |
Particle syntax | p. 68 |
Statement and illustration | p. 74 |
The Cinque Hierarchy | p. 76 |
Against a simplistic explanation | p. 77 |
Digression: the imperative | p. 79 |
The inverse base effect | p. 82 |
Argument structure and adjuncts | p. 82 |
Argument-argument combinations | p. 85 |
Argument-adjunct combinations | p. 86 |
Statement | p. 88 |
Making mirrors | p. 89 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
Preliminary: against functional iteration | p. 89 |
A head-final approach | p. 93 |
Head initiality and roll-up phrasal movement | p. 96 |
A Minor-Theoretic approach | p. 111 |
Mirror Theory | p. 112 |
Deriving the generalizations | p. 119 |
The agreement prefix | p. 124 |
Conclusion | p. 130 |
Interface properties of clausal domains | p. 131 |
Introduction | p. 131 |
Higher clause structure | p. 132 |
Information structure, discourse structure | p. 135 |
Semantic restrictions on clausal position | p. 141 |
Focus marking | p. 141 |
Adnotninal elements | p. 145 |
Statement | p. 150 |
Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface | p. 153 |
Introduction | p. 153 |
Wh-elements and focus | p. 154 |
Bare quantifiers | p. 159 |
Quantificational and cardinal determiners | p. 160 |
A syntax-semantics mapping conjecture | p. 162 |
Kiowa quantifiers | p. 166 |
Clitic Left Dislocation | p. 169 |
Pre-wft elements | p. 173 |
Conclusion | p. 176 |
Appendix | p. 179 |
References | p. 183 |
Index | p. 188 |
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