FROM DISCOURSE PROCESS TO GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Preliminaries -- 1.1. Functionalist Framework -- 1.1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.2. Linguistic Form and Communicative Function -- 1.1.3. DA versus CA Methodology -- 1.2. Information Flow in Discourse -- 1.2.1. Recoverability -- 1.2.2. Topicality -- 1.3. Interactional Aspects of Discourse10 -- 1.4. LD as a Grammatical Construction -- 1.4.1. A First Approximation -- 1.4.2. Towards a Semantic Characterization -- 1.4.3. On Strict Coreferentiality -- 1.4.4. Conversational Factors -- 1.4.5. Summary -- 1.5. The Database -- 1.5.1. Discourse Typology -- 1.5.2. The Discourse and Conversational Database -- 1.5.3. System of Prosodie Analysis -- Chapter 2. Referent-Introduction (I): Interaction -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A Quantitative Appreciation of LD -- 2.3. LDs with Intervening Turn(s) -- 2.4. LDs with Intervening Pause -- 2.5. Pauseless LDs -- 2.6. Summary and Comments -- Chapter 3. Referent-Introduction (II): Recoverability -- 3.1. Recoverability Revisited -- 3.2. Completely Irrecoverable REFs -- 3.3. REFs without complete Irrecoverability -- 3.3.1. Inferable REFs -- 3.3.2. The Non-quantifiable Nature of Recoverability -- Chapter 4. Referent-Introduction (III): Topicality -- 4.1. Topicality Revisited -- 4.2. Direct Topicality -- 4.3. Indirect Topicality -- 4.4. Apparent Absence of Topicality -- Chapter 5. Other Functions of LD -- 5.1. LD and Contrastiveness -- 5.1.1. On Contrastiveness -- 5.1.2. Contrastive LDs -- 5.1.3. Listing - LDs -- 5.2. Idiosyncratic LDs -- 5.2.1. Conditional Clauses -- 5.2.2. Some Special Cases -- 5.3. Summary -- Chapter 6. Prosodie Aspects of LD -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Prosodie Boundaries between REF and PROP28 -- 6.3. Intonational Aspects of LD.

6.3.1. Referent-Introducing LDs -- 6.3.2. Other LDs -- 6.3.3. Intonation of the PROP -- 6.4. Summary -- Chapter 7. LD in Other Discourse Types -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. LD in Non-Conversational Spoken Discourse -- 7.3. LD in Written Discourse -- 7.4. Quasi-LDs -- 7.5. Summary -- Chapter 8. A Broader Perspective -- 8.1. Introduction38 -- 8.2. Recent Studies on LD in English -- 8.3. Other Recent Studies on LD -- 8.3.1. LD in German -- 8.3.2. ID in Spoken Standard French -- 8.3.3. LD in Italian Conversation -- 8.4. LD and Language Acquisition -- 8.5. Summary -- Chapter 9. General Conclusion -- 9.1. Summary of Functional Analysis -- 9.2. LD and Referent-Highlighting -- 9.3. Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. The Original Database -- Appendix 2. Extended Conversational Database -- Appendix 3. Transcription Conventions -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- The series STUDIES IN DISCOURSE AND GRAMMAR.