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Preface to the seriesAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Brisard  1. Theories of grammar  2. Topics in pragmatics  3. Naturalizing grammarConstructiona Preface to the seriesAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Brisard 1. Theories of grammar 2. Topics in pragmatics 3. Naturalizing grammarConstructional analysisKiki Nikiforidou 1. Construction grammar and pragmatic analysis 2. The pragmatics of grammar 3. Extending the scope: Conventional pragmatics and conventional discourse 4. Constructions in grammaticalization 5. Summary and prospectsControl phenomenaBenjamin Lyngfelt 1. Introduction 2. Complement control - object clauses 2.1 Control shift 2.2 Other kinds of complement control 3. Adjunct control 4. Arbitrary control 5. Less discussed control patterns 5.1 Control in noun phrases and adjective phrases 5.2 Indirect control 5.3 Some other control relations 6. OutlookDefinitenessRitva Laury 1. Definite descriptions and reference 2. Definiteness and identifiability 3. Choice between types of definite expressions 4. Definiteness and grammar 5. Definiteness marking 6. Development of definiteness 7. ConclusionEmergent grammarMarja-Liisa Helasvuo 1. Introduction 2. Routinization and the emergence of grammar 3. Emergent grammar within linguisticsFrame analysisBranca Telles Ribeiro & Susan M. Hoyle 1. Introduction 2. What are frames? 3. Frame and context in interaction 4. Frame and footing 5. Framing and nonverbal communication 6. Framing in everyday talk 7. Framing in play 8. Framing and institutional discourse 8.1 Framing and education 8.2 Framing and medicine 9. Perspectives for future researchFunctional Discourse Grammar: pragmatic aspectsMike Hannay & Kees Hengeveld 1. Introduction 2. Outline of the model 2.1 FDG and verbal interaction 2.2 The architecture of FDG 2.3 Levels and layers 3. The interpersonal level 4. Discourse Acts and the relations between them 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Rhetorical functions 4.3 Illocution 5. Subacts and the relations between them 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Pragmatic functions 5.3 Ascription and Reference 6. ConclusionGenerative semanticsJames D. McCawley 1. The history of generative semantics 2. Tenets of GS 2.1 Against deep structure 2.2 Derivational constraints 2.3 Context and acceptability 2.4 Pragmatics integrated in semantics 2.5 The status of logic 2.6 'Transformations' 2.7 The 'base' 3. Pragmatics in GSIconicityElzbieta Tabakowska 1. Introduction 2. History 3. Iconicity we live by: The state of the art 3.1 Iconicity as interpretation 3.2 Principles oficonicity 3.3 Types of iconicity 3.4 Areas of research 4. PerspectivesInformation structureJeanette K. Gundel & Thorstein Fretheim 1. Introduction 2. What is information structure? 2.1 Referential givenness/newness 2.2 Relational givenness/newness -- Topic-focus structure 3. How do languages express information structure? 3.1 Information structure and sentence intonation 3.2 Information structure and morphosyntax 4. The grammar-pragmatics interfaceMental spacesTodd Oakley 1. Meanings are not "in" the words themselves 2. What are mental spaces? 3. Role and value in reference 4. Other features of mental spaces theory 4.1 Elements, relations, frames 4.2 Space builders 5. Spaces and the problems of reference, ambiguity, and presupposition 5.1 Referential opacity 5.2 Pragmatic ambiguity 5.3 Presupposition and optimization 6. Mental spaces and perspective in conditionals, counterfactuals, and deixis 6.1 Conditionals and counterfactuals 6.2 Deictic expressions 7. Mental spaces and discourse management 8. ConclusionModalityFerenc giefer 1. Introduction 2. Modality in logic 3. Necessity and possibility in linguistics 3.1 Epistemic modality 3.2 Deontic modality 3.3 Some further types of modality 3.4 The linguistic tradition 4. Evidentials 5. A possible synthesis 6. Syntactic treatments of modality 7. Modality and pragmatics 7.1 Two readings of 'possible' 7.2 The illocutionary meaning of modal verbs 7.3 Deontic speech acts 7.4 Ability and possibility 7.5 Modality and grammaticalization 8. ProspectsNegationMatti Miestamo 1. Scope of negation 2. Markedness of negation 3. The expression of negation in the world's languages 4. Negative polarity items 5. Negation and scalarity 6. Metalinguistic negation 7. Negative transport 8. Negation in diachrony 9. The acquisition of negationPrague schoolPetr Sgall 1. Historical overview 2. Main concepts and fields of research 3. Prague functionalism and pragmaticsRole and Reference GrammarRobert D. Van Valin, Jr. 1. Introduction 2. Historical background 3. Central concepts 3.1 Clause structure 3.2 Semantic structure 3.3 Focus structure 3.4 Grammatical relations and linking 4. Some implications of RRGSemantics vs. pragmaticsKen Turner 1. Fregean beginnings 2. From then until now 3. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Gricean pragmatics 3.1 Relevance Theory 3.2 The Least Effort Hypothesis 3.3 The Q-, I- and M-Principles Hypothesis 3.4 Pragmatic intrusion 4. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Kaplanean semantics 5. Postscript: The logical basis of the semantics-pragmatics interface 6. ConclusionTense and aspectRobert L Binnick 1. The semantics of markers of tense and/or aspect 1.1 Tense 1.2 Aspect 1.3 Aktionsart 1.4 Underspecification and the pragmatics of tense and aspect 2. Discourse functions in MTA choice 2.1 Genre 2.2 Focalization 2.3 Function 3. Discourse coherence in the interpretation of MTAs 3.1 Discourse coherence 3.2 The linguistic level 3.3 The intentional level 3.4 The attentional levelWord orderMiriam Fried 1. Syntactic typology 2. Pragmatic functions of word order 3. Cognitive correlates of theme/rheme notions 4. Word order in grammatical descriptions and linguistic theory 5. Diachronic perspective 6. Concluding remarksIndex