Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Degrees of Contrast and the Topic-Focus Articulation -- Information Structure and Modular Grammar -- Negative Descriptions of Events: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Sentence Negation and its Relevance for Information Structure -- Two Types of Contrastive Topics? -- Information Structure - Two-dimensionally Explicated -- Topic Constraints in the German Middlefield -- Contrastive Word Stress in Vedic Endo- and Exocentric Compounds -- Towards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness -- Prosody in Dialogues and Single Sentences: How Prosody can influence Speech Perception -- On the Independence of Information Structural Processing from Prosody -- The Prosodic Pattern of Contrastive Accent in Russian -- Focus Structure and the Processing of Word Order Variations in German -- International Patterns in Contrast and Concession -- Prosody in Contrast -- Short Portraits of the Authors -- Index