Tabla de materias
Part I: General issues
0. Introduction Giuliano Bernini
1. Spoken and written language Jim Miller and M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest
Part II: From function to form
2. Sentence topics in the languages of Europe Elena S. Maslova and Giuliano Bernini
3. Focus in the languages of Europe Jim Miller
4. Deixis and Anaphora Yaron Matras and Machtelt Bolkestein
5. Theticity Hans-Jürgen Sasse
Part III: From form to function
6. The de-accenting of given information: a cognitive universal? Alan Cruttenden
7. Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe(Rosanna Sornicola
8. Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe Christoph Schroeder
Index of names
Index of languages
Index of subjects
Sobre el autor
Giuliano Bernini is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy.
Marcia L. Schwartz is affiliated with the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.