In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from …

This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a
general characterization of IS—following Chafe (1976)—within a communicative model of …

Este libro proporciona un estudio de la entonación y la estructura prosódica de última
generación. Desde un punto de vista fonológico, muestra cómo los constituyentes morfo …

This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural
languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have …

This paper presents a comprehensive pragmatic theory of contrastive topic and its relation to
focus in English. In discussing various constructions involving contrastive topics, it argues …

In this article, we discuss the implications of the fact that adult second language learners
(outside the classroom) universally develop a well-structured, efficient and simple form of …

Diese Einführung bietet eine grundlegende, didaktisierte und gut lesbare Grundlegung aller
Aspekte der Stilistik, ua aus textlinguistischer Perspektive. Behandelt werden …

Diese Einführung in die begrifflichen, theoretischen und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen
Grundlagen der Soziolinguistik ist als Arbeitsbuch mit Aufgaben für Studenten konzipiert …

In this paper we present an alternative approach to discourse structure according to which
topicality is the general organizing principle in discourse. This approach accounts for the fact …

This study is part of a larger project organised under the auspices of the European Science
Foundation (ESF) in which the second language acquisition of adult immigrants was …