Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Exploring the Architecture of Topic at the Interface of Grammar and Discourse -- Part I: Semantic and Discourse-pragmatic Correlates of Topicality -- Topics and Givenness -- The Role of Topics in Licensing Anaphoric Relations in VP-ellipsis -- Topic Marking and Illocutionary Force -- Topics, Conversational Dynamics and the Root/Non-root Distinction: Adverbial Clauses at the Discourse-syntax Interface -- Part II: Variation in the Grammatical Encoding of Topicality: Clause-internal, Clause-external and Null Topics -- Why Topicalize VP? -- Information-structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs -- Stage Topics and their Architecture -- Topicality in Icelandic: Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion -- Apropos the Topic -- Discourse Topic vs. Sentence Topic Exploiting the Right Periphery of German Verb-second Sentences -- PART III: Topics from the Diachronic Perspective -- Topichood and the Margins of the German Clause from a Historical Perspective -- Stylistic Fronting at the Interface of Syntax and Discourse -- Index