John Benjamins: Book details for Coherence and Grounding in Discourse [TSL 11]

Preface	vii
Narrative connectives in Sùpyìré Robert Carlson	1
Cognitive constraints on information flow Wallace Chafe	21
Transitivity in grammar and cognition Scott DeLancey	53
Actions and procedural directions Peter Dixon	69
Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition Katherine Demuth	91
Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding Mary Erbaugh	109
The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative Vanessa Flashner	131
Anaphora in popular written English narratives Barbara A. Fox	157
Beyond foreground and background T. Givón	175
The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories Lorraine E. Kumpf	189
On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse Knud Lambrecht	217
On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourse Lynell Marchese	263
Is basic word order universal? Marianne Mithun	281
Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience Andrew Pawley	329
Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century Ellen Rafferty	361
The functional distribution of preposed and postposed ‘if’ and ‘when’ clauses in written discourse Violeta Ramsey	383
“Vividness” and “narrative events” in Japanese conversational narratives Polly E. Szatrowski	409
“Subordination” and narrative event structure Sandra A. Thompson	435
Linguistic reflections of cognitive events Russell S. Tomlin	455
Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond Benji Wald	481

Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

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