i-iv -- General Preface -- Contents -- Contents detailed -- Contributors -- I. General issue -- Introduction -- Spoken and written language -- II. From function to form -- Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond -- Focus in the languages of Europe -- Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies -- Theticity -- III. From form to function -- The de-accenting of given information: A cognitive universal? -- Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe -- Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe -- Subject index. Language index. Author index