Table of Contents:
  • Acknowlegements
  • Exploring the Architecture of Topic at the Interface of Grammar and Discourse / Valéria Molnár, Verner Egerland, Susanne Winkler
  • Semantic and Discourse-pragmatic Correlates of Topicality
  • Topics and Givenness / Michael Rochemont
  • The Role of Topics in Licensing Anaphoric Relations in VP-ellipsis / Roland Hinterhölzl
  • Topic Marking and Illocutionary Force / Werner Frey, André Meinunger
  • Topics, Conversational Dynamics and the Root, Non-root Distinction : Adverbial Clauses at the Discourse-syntax Interface / Mara Frascarelli
  • Variation in the Grammatical Encoding of Topicality : Clause-internal, Clause-external and Null Topics
  • Why Topicalize VP? / Peter W. Culicover, Susanne Winkler
  • Information-structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs / Kordula De Kuthy, Andreas Konietzko
  • Stage Topics and their Architecture / Nomi Erteschik-Shir
  • Topicality in Icelandic : Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion / Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson
  • Apropos the Topic : On Topic-introducing Expressions in Swedish / Verner Egerland
  • Discourse Topic vs. Sentence Topic : Exploiting the Right Periphery of German Verb-second Sentences / Valéria Molnár, Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
  • Topics from the Diachronic Perspective
  • Topichood and the Margins of the German Clause from a Historical Perspective / Augustin Speyer
  • Stylistic Fronting at the Interface of Syntax and Discourse / Valéria Molnár
  • Index.