Table of contents
Chapter 1.Discourse phenomena in typological perspective: An overview1
Part IDiscourse strategies
Chapter 2.Toward a non-aprioristic approach to discourse-associated devices13
Chapter 3.Towards pragmatic construction typology: The case of discourse formulae35
Chapter 4.The use of interjections as a discourse phenomenon: A contrastive study of Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande)65
Part IIDiscourse functions of grammatical markers
Chapter 5.From an adverb/postposition ‘behind’ to a discourse marker: The particle reχu in Andi93
Chapter 6.Connectivity of wh in bilingual Turkish: Developing a corpus-pragmatic filtering method135
Chapter 7.Polish że ‘that’ as an elaboration marker: Language-internal and cross-linguistic perspectives167
Chapter 8.Repetitive constructions and stance-marking: The case in Korean201
Part IIIStrategies managing discourse and information flow
Chapter 9.Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST231
Chapter 10.Differential indexing as a means of information structure management269
Chapter 11.Highlighting beginning, end, or transition in-between: Topic-shift conceptions in English, Ainu, and Japanese295
Chapter 12.On the topic-marking function of left dislocations and preposings: Variation across spoken and written Italian and English337
Chapter 13.English oh as a structural and modal marker: A contrastive analysis with Spanish369
Chapter 14.A typological study of tail-head linkage constructions403
Index433
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