Information structure, discourse structure and grammatical structure

Abstract

1. Introduction (by Defrancq, Bart) 2. Micro-syntax, macro-syntax, foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse: When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information (by Cornish, Francis) 3. Influence of relational and referential coherence on the distribution of coordinated verb-second clauses in German and Dutch: A contrastive corpus-based case study (by Stuyckens, Geert) 4. The rhetorical relations in complex sentences with quando ('when') in European Portuguese (by Silvano, Purificacao) 5. Adverbials in German: More on embedding and focus (by Ludwig, Rainer) 6. Emergent correlative concessivity: The case of German zwar... aber 'true ... but' (by Leuschner, Torsten) 7. The role of genre in information structuring in English (by Kerz, Elma)