Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Word order in discourse : by way of introduction / Pamela Downing
  • What are discourse principles made of? / Ron Cowan
  • Agent position in the Sejarah Melayu / Susanna Cumming
  • Preverbal nominals in Colville-Okanagan / Michael Darnell
  • Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order / Matthew S. Dryer
  • Subject-verb word and the function of early position / Bruce B. Harold
  • Focus position in SOV languages / Susan C. Herring and John C. Paolillo
  • Word order at the noun phrase level in Japanese : quantifier constructions and discourse functions / Alan Hyun-Oak Kim
  • WH-clefts and left-dislocation in English conversation : cases of topicalization / Kyu-hyun Kim
  • Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese /Randy J. LaPolla
  • Left shifts in strongly VSO languages / Robert E. Longacre
  • The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languages / Silvia Luraghi
  • Morphological and prosodic forces shaping word order / Marianne Mithun
  • The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish / Francisco Ocampo
  • Verb initial languages and information order / Doris L. Payne
  • On the discourse function of possessor movement in Emai prose narratives / Ronald P. Schaefer
  • Focal attention, voice, and word order : an experimental, cross-linguistic study / Russell S. Tomlin
  • Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse : the case of Guaraní / Maura Velázquez-Castillo.