Part IDiscourse strategies

Chapter 2.Toward a non-aprioristic approach to discourse-associated devices13

Vladimir Panov

Chapter 3.Towards pragmatic construction typology: The case of discourse formulae35

Polina Bychkova

Ekaterina Rakhilina

Chapter 4.The use of interjections as a discourse phenomenon: A contrastive study of Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande)65

Tatiana Nikitina

Ekaterina Aplonova

Leonardo Contreras Roa

Part IIDiscourse functions of grammatical markers

Chapter 5.From an adverb/postposition ‘behind’ to a discourse marker: The particle reχu in Andi93

Timur Maisak

Chapter 6.Connectivity of wh in bilingual Turkish: Developing a corpus-pragmatic filtering method135

Annette Herkenrath

Birsel Karakoç

Chapter 7.Polish że ‘that’ as an elaboration marker: Language-internal and cross-linguistic perspectives167

Wojciech Guz

Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Chapter 8.Repetitive constructions and stance-marking: The case in Korean201

Hyun Jung Koo

Seongha Rhee

Chapter 9.Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST231

Stefan Schnell

Geoffrey Haig

Nils Norman Schiborr

Maria Vollmer

Chapter 10.Differential indexing as a means of information structure management269

Erika Just

Chapter 11.Highlighting beginning, end, or transition in-between: Topic-shift conceptions in English, Ainu, and Japanese295

Katsunobu Izutsu

Mitsuko Narita Izutsu

Chapter 12.On the topic-marking function of left dislocations and preposings: Variation across spoken and written Italian and English337

Doriana Cimmino

Chapter 13.English oh as a structural and modal marker: A contrastive analysis with Spanish369

Elena Martínez Caro

Chapter 14.A typological study of tail-head linkage constructions403

Jesús Olguín Martínez

Index433