Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents IX
4. Exploring the Architecture of Topic at the Interface of Grammar and Discourse 1
5. Part I: Semantic and Discourse-pragmatic Correlates of Topicality
6. Topics and Givenness 47
7. The Role of Topics in Licensing Anaphoric Relations in VP-ellipsis 67
8. Topic Marking and Illocutionary Force 95
9. Topics, Conversational Dynamics and the Root/Non-root Distinction: Adverbial Clauses at the Discourse-syntax Interface 139
10. Part II: Variation in the Grammatical Encoding of Topicality: Clause-internal, Clause-external and Null Topics
11. Why Topicalize VP? 173
12. Information-structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs 203
13. Stage Topics and their Architecture 223
14. Topicality in Icelandic: Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion 249
15. Apropos the Topic 273
16. Discourse Topic vs. Sentence Topic Exploiting the Right Periphery of German Verb-second Sentences 293
17. PART III: Topics from the Diachronic Perspective
18. Topichood and the Margins of the German Clause from a Historical Perspective 337
19. Stylistic Fronting at the Interface of Syntax and Discourse 373
20. Index 425