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This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations i

Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does

This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world’s languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict di

This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constr