I-IV -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter One The Establishment of Narrative Coherence -- Chapter Two Pronominal and Nominal Markers and the Establishment of Coherence -- Chapter Three The Contribution of Tense to Coherence -- Chapter Four Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix A The German Tense System -- Appendix Β Background utterances that are excluded from tense coding -- Appendix C Reduced copy of the picture book -- Index -- 245-246