This work is presented within a discourse analysis framework, a form of analysis that has hardly been done. Traditionally, the study of syntax is restricted to what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora).

1. List of abbreviations; 2. Introduction (by Haiman, John); 3. Linking intonation units in spoken English (by Chafe, Wallace); 4. A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative (by Genetti, Carol); 5. Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses (by Haiman, John); 6. Concessive clauses in English and Romance (by Harris, Martin B.); 7. Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives (by Konig, Ekkehard); 8. Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French (by Lambrecht, Knud); 9. Towards a typology of clause linkage (by Lehmann, Christian); 10. Subordination in Tauya (by MacDonald, Lorna); 11. Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie (by Marchese, Lynell); 12. The structure of discourse and 'subordination' (by Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M.); 13. The grammaticalization of coordination (by Mithun, Marianne); 14. The discourse function af clause-chaining (by Myhill, John); 15. Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose (by Nichols, Johanna); 16. Index (by Luo, Cheng)