Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contrast, the fall-rise accent, and Information Focus -- Iconic and categorical focus systems in Scandinavian -- Are Finnish null subjects null topics? -- Discourse configurationality in Finnish and Hungarian -- The relation between morphological case, syntactic functions and thematic roles in Icelandic: A frequency analysis -- Passive as activity aspect. On the relation between aspectuality and passive: A comparative study of German and Swedish -- The passive in Icelandic - compared to Mainland Scandinavian -- Authors' addresses