Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. Constraints in discourse 1
5. Part I. The Right Frontier
6. 2. Troubles on right frontier 29
7. 3. The moving right frontier 53
8. Part II. Comparing Frameworks
9. 4. Strong generative capacity of RST, SDRT and discourse dependency DAGSs 69
10. 5. Rhetorical distance revisited: A parameterized approach 97
11. 6. Underspecified discourse representation 117
12. Part III. The Cognitive Perspective
13. 7. Dependency precedes independence: Online evidence from discourse processing 141
14. 8. Accessing discourse referents introduced in negated phrases: Evidence for accomodation? 159
15. Part IV. Language Specific Phenomena
16. 9. Complex anaphors in discourse 181
17. 10. The discourse functions of the present perfect 201
18. 11. German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse 225
19. 12. A discourse-relational approach to continuation 249
20. 13. German vorfeld-filling as constraint interaction 267
21. Index 291