Subject Index
Acoustic correlate
107, 108
Adstrate
1, 63, 66, 68, 71, 196
Animacy distinctions
Animacy
2, 12, 13, 17, 20–27, 32, 33, 140–148, 192, 194, 203, 205
Gender
13, 17, 22–27, 33, 59, 68, 142–148, 192, 197, 203, 205
Antisymmetry Hypothesis
39
Aspect
2, 12, 16, 32, 33, 41, 43n, 46, 47, 58, 62, 64–66, 69–70, 73, 119–121, 140–141, 165–169, 172, 174–176, 179–184, 186–191, 195, 197, 203–204
Aspectual adverb
179–180
Associative plural
19, 21, 148–149, 153, 160–162, 165, 179, 192
Atlantic Creoles
2, 44, 193, 198
Bound morpheme
16, 24–26, 47, 56, 89–90, 95, 110, 122, 143, 146, 148, 170, 171, 179, 183, 189n, 190, 194
Caribbean Spanish
139, 179
Classifier
General
3, 20, 25–26, 28, 143–144, 149, 152–153, 158, 163, 204–205
Plural classifier
152, 159–160
Animacy classifier
25, 142–143, 146–148, 205
Cluster
5, 24, 75–77, 81, 153
Command
12, 119, 124, 127, 132, 134–136, 139
Complement
28, 39–44, 47, 58, 63, 68
Compounding
12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28–29, 74, 194
Co-singular
21, 57, 142, 149, 151–153, 156, 158–165, 192, 195, 205
Count noun
18, 21, 55, 149–150, 154–156, 158–160, 164, 205
Declarative sentence
12, 115, 123–129, 139, 201
Deontic modality
170–172, 209
Derivation
14, 16–19, 22, 25, 30–31, 33, 60, 88–90, 93, 166, 194, 199
Derivational perfectives
166, 189
Double plurals
19, 162
Epistemic modality
170–171
Exclamatory sentence
12, 124, 126–127, 132–134, 138–139
Existential
43–44, 137, 151, 157
Expletive
60, 61–62, 74, 194, 198
Exponence
16–17, 32, 49, 73, 162, 166, 194
Flexion
16, 32
Functional categories
13, 16–17, 32, 40, 45, 47, 49, 62, 69, 141n, 206
Fusion
16, 32
Grammaticalization
14, 49, 144, 147, 148, 170, 181, 184, 187–191, 193, 195, 197, 204
[+human] feature
20, 21, 24–26, 143–148, 160, 192, 193, 194–195, 204, 205, 207
Iberian lexifier
1, 3, 5, 9, 23, 28, 30, 31, 46, 52, 53, 56, 58, 81, 87, 88, 92, 94, 105, 134, 139, 141, 142, 154, 157n, 175, 179, 181, 187, 189, 190, 192, 193, 203
Inanimate
20, 143, 147
Inflection
12, 14–18, 23, 28, 29–30, 33, 56–57, 58, 59, 61, 69, 73, 141, 151, 166, 170, 171, 175, 190, 191, 194, 196–198
Inherent morphology
14, 18, 19, 23, 29–30, 72, 151, 162
Interrogative sentence
12, 36, 128–132, 201
Intonation
11–12, 95–97, 99, 107, 111, 121–139, 194, 196, 199, 200–202
Intransitive verb
63, 64, 69, 73
Isolating
14, 16, 19, 29, 32, 60, 196, 198
Kind denoting
21, 149, 151–152, 156, 158–160, 163, 192, 205
Lexifier
2, 4, 5, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 41, 47, 53, 55, 59, 67, 73, 75, 76, 81, 93, 94, 99, 103, 144, 149, 180, 187, 189, 196, 201, 203, 206, 207
Linguistic Relativism
141
Mood
2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 33, 41, 43n, 45, 46, 47, 58, 69, 70, 73, 74, 140, 141, 165, 166, 167, 170–174, 190, 191, 195, 197, 204
Nasalization
13, 77–82, 84, 85, 93, 94, 194, 195, 199
Negation
3, 5, 6, 12, 17, 32, 33, 45, 46, 49–52, 58, 60, 69, 74, 123, 124, 136, 171, 191, 197, 200, 201, 205
Number
2, 3, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18–23, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 53, 55, 56, 59, 68, 69, 74, 140, 141, 142, 145, 148–165, 150n, 192, 194, 195, 197, 203, 204, 208
Numeral
18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 55, 56, 57, 142, 149, 150, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 192, 205, 206
Obligatory subject
60, 61–62, 64, 65, 67, 198
Particle
4, 43, 47, 69, 71, 122, 124, 126, 136–139, 166, 167n, 188, 200, 201, 204
Pitch-accent
96, 97, 98, 102, 103, 111, 115, 121, 124, 132, 133, 136, 139, 201
Plural
17, 19–23, 29, 31, 35, 37, 54, 55, 56, 57, 69, 148–165, 192, 205
Portmanteau morpheme
191
Possessive
39, 53, 54, 56, 58, 72, 142, 157
Pronoun
Personal pronoun
14, 21, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 43n, 45, 46, 47, 51, 54, 56, 58, 62, 65, 72, 73, 102, 106–107, 110, 116, 119, 130, 142, 147, 148, 151, 153, 154, 160, 195, 196
Plural pronoun
17, 20, 23, 161, 162n5, 163
Subject pronoun
31, 32, 47, 60, 66, 74, 150n, 174, 195, 196, 201
Reduplication
14, 17, 18–19, 28–29, 57, 167n, 194
Referential gender
23, 24, 25, 142–148, 205
Semi-null subject language
64, 198
Serial verb construction
12, 48–49, 62, 68, 69–71, 189, 201
Singular
18, 19, 31, 54, 55, 69, 110, 149, 150–151, 152, 156, 158, 159n, 161, 163, 165, 192, 205
Stress
5, 11, 17, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 42n, 43n1, 45, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95–101, 102, 103–111, 115, 121, 122, 125, 132, 133, 135, 138–139, 194, 196, 199, 200–203, 207
Subordinate sentence
40, 63
Substrate
1, 4, 14, 41, 69, 70, 81, 85n1, 93, 139, 184, 190, 207
SVO
39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 198
Tense
2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 32, 33, 41, 43n1, 45, 46, 47, 48, 58, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 73, 119, 120, 121, 134, 140, 141, 141n, 165, 166–169, 171, 172, 175, 176, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 195, 197, 203, 204
Thematic vowel
12, 30, 32
TMA
4, 13, 16, 17, 29, 43, 45, 46–49, 50, 66, 69, 71, 74, 141, 166–167, 172, 174, 185, 186, 189, 190, 191, 197, 198, 203, 204
Tone
4, 11, 17, 30, 31, 32, 42, 87, 88n, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101–106, 107, 108, 111–121, 122–123, 123–126, 126n, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136–138, 139, 194, 196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 202, 206, 207
Transitive verb
41, 43, 62, 63, 69, 73, 194
Unaccusative
68, 69
Vowel harmony
6, 13, 30, 84, 85–88, 90, 93, 94, 199