Part I: Preliminary Chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What is Sentential Complementation?
Chapter 3: Akkadian
Part II: Structural History: The emergence of complementizers and quotatives
Chapter 4: The Emergence of Finite Complements
Chapter 5: The Grammaticalization of the Quotative Construction
Part III: Functional History: The changes in the functional domain of complementation from 2500BC to 500BC
Chapter 6: The Functional Domain of Complementation in Babylonian
Chapter 7: Verbs of Knowledge, Perception, and Others
Chapter 8: Manipulation and Modality
Chapter 9: The WH-Functional Domain, Direct and Indirect Questions
Part IV: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process
Chapter 10: Functional Parallels for the Babylonian Development
Chapter 11: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process