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  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1. Functional approach to the study of language
  • 2. Data base
  • 3. Outline
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: Methodology
  • 1. Thematicity and topicality
  • 2. Topicality and the quantitative method
  • 3. Limitations to the quantitative method
  • Chapter 3: Chamorro morphology and syntax
  • 1. Phonology
  • 1.1. Phonemic inventory
  • 1.2. Stress rule
  • 1.3. I-umlaut
  • 2. Morphology
  • 2.1. The make-up of the noun phrase
  • 2.2. Verb phrase morphology
  • 2.3. Word order
  • Notes.
  • Chapter 4: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Quantitative results and graphs
  • 3. Discussion
  • 3.1. The transitive construction
  • 3.2. The antipassive construction
  • 3.3. The passive construction
  • 4. Preliminary conclusions
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Functional analysis of passives in Chamorro
  • 1. Counterexamples to the general function of the Chamorro passive
  • 2. MA-passives as distinct from IN-passives
  • 3. Topicality and obligatory passives
  • 3.1. Number
  • 3.2. Animacy.
  • 3.3. Pronouns and the hierarchy of topicality
  • 4. Passives, topicality, and agentivity
  • 4.1. Topic-shift
  • 4.2. Second person Objects
  • 4.3. Complement constructions
  • 4.4. Direct quote discourse in narratives
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: A functional look at the antipassive
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. The indefinite antipassive
  • 3. The demoting antipassive
  • 3.1. Affectedness of the object
  • 3.2. Identity of the Agent
  • 3.3. A pragmatic functional correlate for the demoting antipassive
  • 4. Aspect
  • 5. General function of the antipassive
  • Notes.
  • Chapter 7: Complex sentence constructions
  • 1. The ergative infix -UM-
  • 1.1. Complement clauses
  • 1.2. Distribution of -UM- in other complex clauses
  • 1.3. General characteristics of the ergative -UM- construction
  • 2. Nominalizations
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8: Discoure organization and paragraph thematicity
  • 1. Thematicity and subject coding
  • 1.1. Thematicity and the general rule of topicality
  • 1.2. Thematicity and the rule of topic-shift
  • 1.3. Conclusions
  • 2. Thematicity and subject inversion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9: Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Sample story.
  • Appendix B: List of Abbreviations
  • References
  • Index.