Form and function in language research : papers in honour of Christian Lehmann Introduction Johannes Helmbrecht Yoko Nishina Yong Min Shin Stavros Skopeteas Elisabeth Verhoeven A. Onomasiological Perspective: From Function to Form: A.1. Functional Typologies: The continuum of pragmaticity: A sketch Hansjakob Seiler Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska Spatial Reciprocity: Between Grammar and Lexis Ekkehard König and Claire Moyse Faurie A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) Christel Stolz and Thomas Stolz A.2. Constraints on the Formal Encoding of Functional Concepts: Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives Johan van der Auwera Andrej Malchukov and Ewa Schalley Animacy hierarchy and argument hierarchy in conflict: Constraints on object topicalization in Korean Yong Min Shin and Elisabeth Verhoeven A.3. The Limits of the Formal Exponence of Functions: Zero Zero and nothing in Jarawara Robert M.W. Dixon Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul Gerd Jendraschek B. Semasiological Perspective: From Form to Function: B.1. Establishing Cross Linguistic Categories and Relations: Once more on linguistic categories Paolo Ramat Questions around the basic notion of the word lexie morpheme and lexeme Christian touratier Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax Lunella Mereu Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment extraction and control Jürgen Bohnemeyer B.2. Formal Typologies: Areal typology of tone consonant interactions and implosives in Kwa Kru and Southern Mande Firmin Ahoua The internal structure of adpositional phrases Silvia Luraghi On the form of complex predicates: Towards demystifying serial verbs Matt Shibatani Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches Dieter Metzing and Saba Amsalu Teserra Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks Pierluigi Cuzzolin B.3. Discovering Function in the Identity of Form: Constituent questions and argument focus constructions: some data from the North Caucasian languages Nina Sumbatova A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon : towards a typology of partitive and pseudo partitive nominal constructions Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm Index