The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career. Table of ContentsIntroduction Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan vii-viii Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions Joan L. Bybee 1-17 Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class? Bernard Comrie 19-30 Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English Charles J. Fillmore 31-59 Denial and the construction of conversational turns Cecilia E. Ford 61-78 On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world Barbara A. Fox 79-99 The symmetry of counterfactuals John Haiman and Tania A. Kuteva 101-124 Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations Pelin Engin Hennesy and T. Givón 125-144 Hendiadys and auxiliation in English Paul J. Hopper 145-173 ”Sentence” in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse Shoichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Ono 175-202 Some issues concerning the origin of language Charles N. Li 203-221 Are subordinate clauses more difficult? Carol Lord 223-233 Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 235-319 Overwrought utterances: “Complex sentences” in a different sense Emanuel A. Schegloff 321-336 Publications by Sandra A. Thompson 337-345 Name index 351-355 Subject index 357-363