1. Introduction 1.1 Preliminaries: Word Order, Linguistic Meaning, and Human Choice 1.2 Starting Point 1.3 Terminological Clarifications: Participants and Events 1.4 William Diver and the Columbia School of Linguistics 1.5 Traditional Non-Equivalents: Argument Structure 1.6 Data and Corpus 1.

7 Book Structure 2. State of the Art: A Critical Review of Relevant Studies 2.1 Introduction 2.2 General Perspectives: All Languages 2.3 Specific Perspectives: Spanish 2.4 Universal vs. Language-Specific Approaches 2.5 The Hybrid Pragmatically Motivated Approach 2.

6 Modalities of Attention and Choice of Word Order 3. The System of Participant Attentionworthiness: Two Participants, Both Realized 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Mechanism of the System 3.3 Data and Validation Procedures 3.4 The Simple PEP Word Order: Type A 3.5 The Simple PEP Word Order: Type B 3.6 Special Considerations: Complex PEP 4.

The System of Participant Attentionworthiness: Two Participants, One Realized 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Data and Validation Procedures 4.3 The E P' Word Order 4.4 The P'E Word Order 5. The System of Event Attentionworthiness - Phase 1: One Participant 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Data and Validation Procedures 5.

3 The E P= Word Order 5.4 The P=E Word Order 6. The System of Event Attentionworthiness - Phase 2: Two Participants 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Formation of Signals: EPP and PPE as avoidance of PEP 6.3 Data and Validation Procedures 6.4 The EPP Word Order 6.5 The PPE Word Order 6.

6 Quantitative Evidence for EPP and PPE 7. Theory 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Traditional Categories 7.3 Typological Considerations 7.4 Language-Specific vs. Universal Features 8. Summary of the Analysis 8.

1 Introduction 8.2 Grammatical Systems 8.3 New Communicative Rationale 8.4 Co-Reference and Grammatical Relations 8.5 Oppositions of Substance and Oppositions of Value 8.6 Semantic Categorization and Typological Considerations 8.7 Relation to Literary Analysis 8.8 Concluding Thoughts.