Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on transliteration
List of abbreviations

Introduction
① Scope of the study
1. Preliminaries
2. Compounds, noun incorporation, and idiomatic expressions
3. Subjects in idioms and compounds
4. Problems related to the recognition of verbal compounds in Korean
② Significance of the study
1. Theoretical implications: Subject properties and behavior
2. Descriptive implications: Subject-Predicate Collocations in East Asia
3. Lexicographic applications
③ Organization of this work

Chap. 1 On Subjects, Predicates and Compounds in Asian Languages
① Delimiting the frame: S, P, and C
1. Predicates: Verbs, adjectives... and nouns
2. Subjects in Asian languages
3. Loci for subjects in SPC
② Syntactic reversibility in Chinese and SEAn languages
③ Illustration of compound properties in Asian languages
1. Sandhi phenomena and suprasegmental integration in Japanese
2. Morphological and syntactic integration
3. Other criteria and the fuzzy distinction between compounds and collocations

Chap. 2 SPC in Standard Korean
① General remarks
1. Subjects in Korean
2. Word-like availability of Subject-Predicate sequences
3. Towards a classification of Korean SPC
② An overview of integration properties
1. Phonological changes
2. Morpho-syntactic integrity
3. Functional hints to wordhood: categorial change
③ Conclusion

Chap. 3 Paradigmatic Choice and the Margins of Syntax
① Introduction: Optional arguments and argument-like adjuncts
1. Some diagnostic tests for Spoken French
2. The notion rection large (wide government)
3. Paradigmatic interpretation
② Delimiter particle insertion in Korean and the argument/adjunct~disjunct opposition
1. Nominal functions
2. Adverbial functions
3. Negative proforms
③ Fake arguments in compounds and collocations
1. Introduction: Classic diagnostic tests for compounding
2. Fake arguments in collocational sequences
3. The syllepsis principle
4. Towards a three-leveled syntax

Conclusion

References
Index