List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Pedagogical guide Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.; Introduction Delia Bentley; Part I. Overview: 1. Principles of role and reference grammar Robert D. Van Valin Jr.; Part II. Topics in RRG: Simple sentences; 2. Lexical and grammatical categories in RRG John M. Peterson; 3. A conceptually-oriented approach to semantic composition in RRG Ricardo Mairal-Usón and Pamela Faber; 4. Semantic macroroles Rolf Kailuweit; 5. Grammatical relations Randy J. LaPolla; 6. Argument structure alternations James K. Watters; 7. Case assignment Wataru Nakamura; 8. Morphology in RRG: the layered structure of the word, inflection and derivation Francisco J. Cortés-Rodríguez; 9. Adverbs, mimetics and ideophones Kiyoko Toratani;10. Adposition assignment and adpositional phrase types in RRG Sergio Ibáñez Cerda; 11. The RRG approach to information structure Delia Bentley; 12. Information structure and argument linking Anja Latrouite and Robert D. Valin, Jr.; Part III. Topics in RRG: Complex sentences; 13. The structure and semantics of complex sentences Toshio Ohori; 14. Linking syntax and semantics in adverbial (adjoined) clauses Lilián Guerrero; 15. Cleft sentences and relative clauses Luis Paris; 16. Extraction restrictions in complex sentences Mitsuaki Shimojo; Part IV. Applications of RRG: 17. Role and reference grammar and diachronic syntax Ranko Matasović; 18. Functional acquisition processes in child language: links to role and reference grammar Richard M. Weist; 19. Grammatical aspects of language processing in the brain: a role and reference grammar perspective Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.; 20. Formalization of RRG syntax Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald; 21. Computational implementation and applications of role and reference grammar Brian Nolan; Part V. Grammatical sketches: 22. A grammatical sketch of Cheyenne (Plains Algonquian, USA) Avelino Corral Esteban; 23. A grammatical sketch of Yimas (Lower Sepik, Papua New Guinea) Willian A. Foley; 24. A grammatical sketch of Avatime (Kwa, Niger-Congo, Ghana) Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina; 25. A grammatical sketch of Amele (Papuan, Papua New Guinea) John R. Roberts; 26. Case and voice in Amis (Austronesian, Taiwan) Joy J. Wu; Index.