Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Narrative connectives in Sùpyìré 1
5. Cognitive constraints on information flow 21
6. Transitivity in grammar and cognition 53
7. Actions and procedural directions 69
8. Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition 91
9. Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding 109
10. The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative 131
11. Anaphora in popular written English narratives 157
12. Beyond foreground and background 175
13. The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories 189
14. On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse 217
15. On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourse 263
16. Is basic word order universal? 281
17. Encoding events in Kalam and English 329
18. Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century 361
19. The functional distribution of preposed and postposed ‘if’ and ‘when’ clauses in written discourse 383
20. “Vividness” and “narrative events” in Japanese conversational narratives 409
21. “Subordination” and narrative event structure 435
22. Linguistic reflections of cognitive events 455
23. Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond 481