Word Order in Discourse

1. List of abbreviations; 2. Word order in discourse: By way of introduction (by Downing, Pamela A.); 3. What are discourse principles made of? (by Cowan, Ron); 4. Agent position in the Sejarah Melayu (by Cumming, Susanna); 5. Preverbal nominals in Colville-Okanagan (by Darnell, Michael); 6. Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order (by Dryer, Matthew S.); 7. Subject-verb word order and the function of early position (by Harold, Bruce B.); 8. Focus position in SOV languages (by Herring, Susan C.); 9. Word order at the noun phrase level in Japanese: quantifier constructions and discourse functions (by Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak); 10. WH-clefs and left-dislocation in English conversation: cases of topicalization (by Kim, Kyu-hyun); 11. Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese (by LaPolla, Randy J.); 12. Left shifts in strongly VSO languages (by Longacre, Robert E.); 13. The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languages (by Luraghi, Silvia); 14. Morphological and prosodic forces shaping word order (by Mithun, Marianne); 15. The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish (by Ocampo, Francisco); 16. Verb initial languages and information order (by Payne, Doris L.); 17. On the discourse function of possessor movement in Emai prose narratives (by Schaefer, Ronald P.); 18. Focal attention, voice, and word order: an experimental, cross-linguistic study (by Tomlin, Russell S.); 19. Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse: the case of Guarani (by Velazquez-Castillo, Maura); 20. Subject Index; 21. Author Index