Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

1. Preface; 2. Narrative connectives in Supyire (by Carlson, Robert); 3. Cognitive constraints on information flow (by Chafe, Wallace); 4. Transitivity in grammar and cognition (by DeLancey, Scott); 5. Actions and procedural directions (by Dixon, Peter); 6. Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition (by Demuth, Katherine); 7. Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding (by Erbaugh, Mary); 8. The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative (by Flashner, Vanessa); 9. Anaphora in popular written English narratives (by Fox, Barbara A.); 10. Beyond foreground and background (by Givon, T.); 11. The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories (by Kumpf, Lorraine E.); 12. On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse (by Lambrecht, Knud); 13. On the role of conditionals in Godie procedural discourse (by Marchese, Lynell); 14. Is basic word order universal? (by Mithun, Marianne); 15. Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience (by Pawley, Andrew); 16. Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century (by Rafferty, Ellen); 17. The functional distribution of preposed and postposed 'if' and 'when' clauses in written discourse (by Ramsey, Violeta); 18. "Vividness" and "narrative events" in Japanese conversational narratives (by Szatrowski, Polly E.); 19. "Subordination" and narrative event structure (by Thompson, Sandra A.); 20. Linguistic reflections of cognitive events (by Tomlin, Russell S.); 21. Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond (by Wald, Benji)