Subject index

• *ABA constraint8, 92

• Ablative21, 85, 111, 151–152, 168

• Accusative5, 29, 61, 69, 80, 120

• Adessive85–86, 90, 93, 97

• Adjectival modification102

• Adposition ,9–11, 14–17, 19, 21, 23–24, 26–27, 30–32, 36, 39–41, 47–49, 53, 56–60, 62–64, 66–67, 70–72, 74, 77, 79, 81, 83–84, 86–89, 92, 95–97, 99, 103, 107, 110–111, 131–132, 134–135, 142, 148–149, 151–152, 156, 158, 161, 168, 184, 186

• Agent29, 38, 46, 51, 61, 63, 66, 80, 82, 89, 105–108, 110–113, 136–137, 139–140, 142, 147, 149, 151–155

• Aggregate175

• Agree159–162, 173–174, 181,

• Allative21, 58, 63, 85, 111

• Allomorph51, 57, 67, 124, 147

• Animate70, 81, 83, 105, 151, 158

• Applicative7, 11, 17, 22, 28, 35–36, 58–72, 91, 98, 104, 149, 186

• Aspect17, 22, 41, 55–56, 62, 88, 103,

• Augmentative163, 174–176, 180, 185

• Auxiliary30, 106

• Axial Part (AxPart)13, 67, 73–76, 80, 82–84, 86–91, 93–105, 107, 111–113, 151–152, 157

• Benefactive9, 11, 17, 21, 24–26, 36, 49, 52–53, 59, 67–68, 72, 156–157

• Body term9, 12–13, 73, 76, 102, 104–105, 107, 163

• Cartography90

• Case: ref. Ablative; Accusative; Adessive; Allative; Benefactive, Dative; Elative; Ergative; Genitive; Illative; Inessive; Instrumental; Locative; Nominative; Oblique; Partitive.

• Causee11, 49, 51–53, 61–63, 65, 69–72, 78, 90

• Causer38, 51, 61, 63, 69, 72, 80, 82, 103–105, 110–111, 113, 155

• Classifier13, 174–177

• Clitic39, 58, 78, 115–116, 151, 171

• Coda13, 113–116, 123, 126–128, 130–133

• Complementizer21

• Conceptual-Intentional interface6, 111–112, 163

• Concomitance53, 103

• Contextual domain13, 114–116, 127–133

• Coordination17, 21, 32–33, 167

• Copula115–116, 122, 124, 126, 156

• Count noun14–15, 158, 174

• Dative3–7, 9–11, 13, 16–19, 21, 25–31, 36, 47–48, 56, 59–61, 64–65, 68, 78, 80–81, 84, 95, 97–99, 104, 108–109, 111, 152, 156–157

• Default95

• Definite10–11, 44, 47, 64, 126, 129, 171, 179, 181, 184

• Definiteness4, 12, 19, 65, 83, 88–89, 126, 183–184

• Demonstrative83

• Derivation2, 14–15, 21–27, 56, 74, 134–136, 138, 142

• Determiner4, 88–89, 112, 126, 159, 169–173, 177–179, 182, 184–185

• Differential Object Marking (DOM)4–5, 10–13, 16–17, 19, 21, 34, 43–45, 47–48, 63, 65, 77, 81–83, 86, 127,

• Diminutive14, 146, 158, 174–177, 179–180, 185

• Direct case8, 20,

• Distributed Morphology (DM)1, 19, 54, 135

• Ditransitive4, 17–18, 20, 27, 31–35, 43, 59–61, 64, 79, 99,

• Elative85

• Ergative20, 70, 88, 97, 155, 187

• Ethnic adjectives15, 134–168

• Evaluative14–15, 145–146, 148, 158, 163, 169–177, 179–181, 183, 185

• Event5–7, 16–19, 28–30, 36–40, 43, 46, 48, 52–53, 55–57, 59–60, 62–63, 65–66, 68–72, 80–84, 92, 95, 97, 103–105, 110–111, 128, 130–132, 137, 141–142, 150, 155–157, 174–175, 186

• Existential13, 62, 114–133

• Expletive115–117, 120, 123–125, 129–132, 171–172

• External argument4, 18, 21, 28, 31, 37–38, 41, 43, 46, 53, 60, 62–63, 66, 69, 83, 99–100, 103, 109–110, 128, 132, 155, 157, 160, 183

• Externalization1, 54–56, 64, 135, 186

• Ezafe77, 111–112

• Figure73–76, 92, 94, 96, 98–100, 102–103, 130

• Functional categories2, 7–8, 10, 13, 16–17, 20, 22, 29, 41–42, 48, 54, 56, 59, 74, 92, 99, 110, 137, 150, 171, 178, 185–186

• Gender14, 96, 149, 159, 162, 172–177

• Genitive3–4, 6–7, 9, 11, 13–16, 47, 56, 59, 78–83, 86, 88–89, 91–92, 94, 97–99, 134–137, 142, 148, 151–152, 155–157, 159–160, 168, 171, 183–184

• Goal4, 7, 12, 17, 19, 24, 27–29, 35, 49, 59, 61, 63–65, 68, 76, 79, 92, 99, 108, 112, 159,

• Grammaticalization53, 56, 158

• Ground73–76, 81–82, 86–87, 89, 91, 93–94, 96–100, 102, 113, 130

• Habitual46

• Illative84–8, 89

• Imperfective55, 88

• Inclusion/subset/part-whole relation (⊆, ⊇)3–9, 11, 14–15, 18–20, 24, 26, 28–29, 31, 33, 36–38, 43, 46–47, 56, 60, 62, 66–69, 72, 78, 80–84, 91–92, 95, 97–101, 103, 105, 108–109, 111, 131–132, 154, 149–168, 173, 183–184

• Indefinite5, 14, 43, 64, 126, 131

• Inessive85, 89, 97

• Inflectional3, 8–9, 14–15, 20, 26, 57, 66, 97, 100, 106, 124, 149–150, 160–162, 173–174, 177, 183

• Instrumental6–7, 9–11, 13, 16, 20–21, 23–24, 31–32, 34–43, 47–49, 51–53, 59, 61–63, 67–68, 70–72, 90, 97, 103, 107–108

• Internal argument4, 22, 28, 37, 43, 45–46, 48, 51, 57, 64, 66, 99, 103, 109, 114, 116, 120, 132, 139–140, 155–157, 183

• Interpretable150, 159, 173

• Kinship term15, 169–173, 175–185

• Labeling37

• Lexicon1, 2, 8, 10, 12–13, 15–17, 43, 54–56, 59, 113, 117, 135, 142, 144, 164–165, 169, 179, 186

• Light Verb Constructions9–10, 16–17, 20–24, 26, 31–32, 35, 41, 48, 58–59,

• Linker77, 112

• Locality1, 145, 155, 173

• Locative13–14, 21, 49, 52–53, 63, 67, 69, 73–74, 77–82, 84, 87, 90–93, 95, 97, 99–105, 112–116, 119, 124, 126–127, 131–133

• Mass noun14–15, 146, 148, 174–175

• Merge1, 2, 15, 22, 37, 40–41, 54, 65, 92, 105, 110, 150, 162, 168–170, 174–175, 177, 181, 185, 186

• Minimalist syntax29, 54, 70, 135, 159, 186

• Modal41

• Nanosyntax2, 7, 20, 68, 86, 92,

• Nominalization136, 153–154, 156–157

• Nominative3, 29, 61–62, 126

• Number3, 14, 149, 152, 173, 176

• Oblique3, 5–9, 11–13, 15–17, 20, 23, 28, 30, 33, 42, 48, 50–51, 53, 56–57, 59–69, 71–72, 77, 84, 93, 97, 102, 104–105, 107,132, 134–135, 142, 148, 159–160, 183–184

• Order19, 27, 33, 39, 41, 44, 68, 92, 106, 127–128, 161, 166, 177, 184

• Parameter12, 46,

• Partitive14, 55, 86, 88, 91, 94–95, 98, 111, 151

• Passive20, 46, 61–62, 105–108, 110, 152, 187

• Past Participle116–117

• Path73–77, 79, 86, 89, 91–92, 101, 104,

• Patient10, 38, 43–44, 46, 49, 57, 61, 64, 70, 105, 112, 139, 142, 149, 154–155, 157

• Pejorative144, 146, 174, 177, 179–180

• Perfect46, 155

• Person8, 107, 115, 119, 125–126, 130–131, 182–184

• Phase1, 161

• Pivot13, 114–117, 120, 123, 126–129, 131–133

• Place73–77, 86, 89, 91–92, 101

• Plural3, 14, 74, 96, 115, 130, 167–168, 173, 182–184

• Polarity17

• Possession6, 8–11, 13, 26, 28, 34, 37, 40, 45, 47, 59–60, 68, 77, 80, 84, 90, 95, 97, 114–126, 131, 133, 142, 155, 163–164, 171, 183, 186

• Possessive15, 27, 89, 94, 96, 111, 115, 120, 122–123, 127, 155, 169–171, 181–185

• Postposition67, 86, 160,

• pragmatic enrichment6, 112

• Predication17–18, 59–60, 74, 100, 118, 120, 122, 128, 134–135, 142, 148, 154, 156,

• Predicative2, 8–9, 13, 20, 54, 60, 73, 97, 100, 113–120, 133, 138, 142, 156–157, 174

• Preposition3–4, 6, 8–9, 11, 18, 20, 23–25, 36, 47, 57–58, 60–61, 73–74, 77–79, 81–84, 86, 93, 95, 97, 99–110, 103, 106–110, 112–113, 115, 131, 136, 139, 152, 162, 183

• Probe159

• Proform115–117, 124–125

• Progressive55–56

• Pronoun22, 32, 82–83, 98, 115, 119, 123–125, 127, 130–132, 178, 182–184

• Qualifying possessive adjectives15, 171–178

• Quantification129, 176, 184

• R-role14, 173

• Referential/animacy/definiteness hierarchy5, 72, 83, 98

• Relational adjective15, 139–140, 142, 144, 146–149, 154–155, 158–159, 161–168

• Relational noun (RelN)12–13, 73–75, 84, 95–96, 102–105, 107–108, 110

• Relative modification178

• Resultative38, 46, 82, 93, 110

• root (√)1–2, 14–15, 51–52, 54, 68, 72, 110, 137, 149–150, 155, 162, 169, 173–177, 179, 181, 185

• Serial verb construction (SVC)9, 12, 16–17, 19–27, 29–37, 39–45, 47–48, 53, 58–59, 65, 149, 186

• Singulative14, 146, 158, 174–175

• Smuggling62

• Source49, 76, 86, 89, 92, 104, 111–112

• Spatial13, 20, 73, 77, 80, 83–86, 88–93, 100, 102, 104–105, 112–113, 151

• Stacking92, 160

• Subject argument sharing22

• Suffixaufnahme92, 159

• Syncretism2–4, 7–9, 11, 13–14, 19–20, 36, 49–57, 59–63, 65, 67, 69–72, 77, 92, 186

• TAM (Tense, Aspect, Mood)21, 33, 55–56, 68

• Tense17, 24, 107, 119, 125,

• Theme4–7, 18, 26–28, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 43–44, 49, 60–61, 64, 99, 155

• Theta-marking22

• Theta-role41, 49, 83, 136–137, 139, 142

• Topic33

• Unaccusative52, 69, 80, 139

• Underspecification6, 55

• Unergative5, 29, 62

• Universal Grammar7, 20, 27, 55, 69, 114, 187

• Voice62, 98, 110

• VP-movement62

• Zero-marked nominative12

• Zonal inclusion3, 9, 18, 28, 60, 95, 132, 163