Searching for Structure; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Preliminaries; Chapter 2. Juxtaposed clauses; Chapter 3. Complementizers in context: An analysis of bahwa; Chapter 4. Verbs in series; Chapter 5. Epistemic -nya constructions; Chapter 6. Conclusion; References; Appendices; Name index; Subject index; The series STUDIES IN DISCOURSE AND GRAMMAR
Summary
This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker bahwa, serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix -nya. These four construction types offer no e
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and indexes