Martina Wiltschko is an ICREA research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Recent publications include The Universal Structure of Categories (Cambridge, 2014).
Prologue; 1. Interactional language; 2. The Syntacticization of speech acts; 3. From speech acts to interaction; 4. The interactional spine hypothesis; 5. Initiating moves: a case study of confirmationals; 6. Reacting moves: a case study of response markers; 7. The grammar of interactional language; Epilogue.