Information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective

List of contributors and editorsEditor’s introductionThorstein Fretheim: Interpreting concessive adverbial markers in English and Norwegian discourseBengt Altenberg: Concessive connectors in English and Swedish Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen: Connectives in contrast: A discourse semantic study of Elaboration based on corpus researchCarlota S. Smith: Perspective and point of view: Accounting for subjectivityRaphael Salkie: Probability and necessity in English and German Karin Aijmer: Modal adverbs of certainty and uncertainty in an English-Swedish perspectiveJeanette K. Gundel: Information structure and the use of cleft sentences in English and NorwegianGeert-Jan M. Kruijff: Formulating a category of informativityValéria Molnár: Contrast - from a contrastive perspectiveJorunn Hetland: Accent and the notion of contrast: A cross-linguistic approach Christiane von Stutterheim, Ralf Nüse and Jorge Murcia Serra: Cross-linguistic differences in the conceptualisation of eventsJuliane House: Maintenance and convergence in covert translation English – GermanErich Steiner: Grammatical metaphor in translation – some methods for corpus-based investigation