Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Chapter 1. Cohesiveness and syntactic variation: quantitative vs. qualitative grammar / Bolkestein, A. Machtelt -- Chapter 2. The typology of embedded predications and the SOV/SVO shift in Western Germanic / Bossuyt, Alain -- Chapter 3. Functional Grammar and intonation / Buuren, Lucas van -- Chapter 4. Inferrability, discourse-boundness, and sub-topics / Hannay, Mike -- Chapter 5. A functional approach to some constructions of spoken Dutch / Lalleman, Josine -- Chapter 6. Topics in Arabic: towards a functional analysis / Moutaouakil, Ahmed -- Chapter 7. Some considerations concerning the notion of 'psychological reality' in functional grammar / Nuyts, Jan -- Chapter 8. The discourse function of the passive / Pinkster, Harm -- Chapter 9. Semantic and syntactic functions in Toba Batak: some implications for functional grammar / Schachter, Paul -- Chapter 10. Pragmatic and syntactic aspects of word order in Dutch / Schutter, Georges de -- Chapter 11. Topic and Focus in Wambon discourse / Vries, Lourens de -- Chapter 12. Parentheticals and functional grammar / Ziv, Yael -- References -- Index of authors -- Index of languages and language-families -- Index of subjectsweiterlesen