This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic
status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The
purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of
topics and, at the same time, to document the range of
discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon
in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i)
theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse;
(ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation
in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality;
(iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take
different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern
languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological
generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of
empirical data - introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced
data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this
volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the
description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic
phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the
architecture of topic while making recent research on the
phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.
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