Preferred argument structure : grammar as architecture for function

1. Preface 2. Abbreviations 3. Introduction (by Du Bois, John W.) 4. Argument structure: Grammar in use (by Du Bois, John W.) 5. Preferred Argument Structure across time and space: A comparative diachronic analysis of French and Spanish (by Ashby, William J.) 6. The lexicon in interaction: Developmental origins of Preferred Argument Structure in Korean (by Clancy, Patricia M.) 7. Genre and Preferred Argument Structure: Sources of argument structure in classroom discourse (by Kumpf, Lorraine E.) 8. Issues in the comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives (by England, Nora C.) 9. New light on information pressure: Information conduits, "escape valves", and role alignment stretching (by Durie, Mark) 10. Beyond Preferred Argument Structure: Sentences, pronouns, and given referents in Nepali (by Genetti, Carol) 11. Multiple constraints on reference form: Null, pronominal, and full reference in Mapudungun (by Arnold, Jennifer E.) 12. Argument splits in Finnish grammar and discourse (by Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa) 13. Core arguments and the inversion of the nominal hierarchy in Roviana (by Corston-Oliver, Simon H.) 14. Preferred Argument Structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech data (by Allen, Shanley E.M.) 15. The role of Preferred Argument Structure for understanding aphasic sentence planning (by Kohn, Susan E.) 16. Nominal information flow in the talk of two boys with autism (by Weber, Elizabeth G.) 17. Tracking the deer: Nominal reference, parallelism and Preferred Argument Structure in Itzaj Maya narrative genres (by Hofling, Charles Andrew) 18. Narrator virtuosity and the strategic exploitation of Preferred Argument Structure in Mocho: Repetition and constructed speech in Mocho narrative (by Martin, Laura) 19. Preferred Argument Structure Bibliography 20. Name index 21. Language index 22. Subject index