List of Figures

Fig. 1: All the languages investigated in the study  10 Fig. 2: Languages of the core sample  47 Fig. 3: Orientation of active participles  62 Fig. 4: Languages with active participles  65 Fig. 5: Orientation of passive participles  68 Fig. 6: Languages with passive participles  73 Fig. 7: Orientation of agentive participles  75 Fig. 8: Languages with agentive participles  77 Fig. 9: Orientation of absolutive participles  78 Fig. 10: Languages with absolutive participles  84 Fig. 11: Languages with participles oriented towards non-core participants  90 Fig. 12: Languages with contextually oriented participles: full contextual orientation  97 Fig. 13: Languages with contextually oriented participles: limited contextual orientation  104 Fig. 14: Languages with resumptive pronouns in participial relative clauses  120 Fig. 15: Participial systems in the languages of the core sample  238