PRAGMATICS OF WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- References -- Is Basic Word Order Universal? -- 1. Word order in some perplexing cases -- 2. Standard strategies for detecting basic order and pragmatically based languages -- 3. Word order typology and pragmatically based ordering -- 4. The pragmatically based type -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Basic Word Order in Two "Free Word Order" Languages -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some elementary observations on word order and use -- 2. Grammar and basic word order in Papago -- 3. Grammar and basic word order in Warlpiri -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- The Privilege of Primacy Experimental Data and Cognitive Explanations -- Primacy effects in sentence and discourse comprehension -- The Structure Building Framework -- The Advantage of First Mention in sentences -- The Advantage of First Mention versus the Advantage of Clause Recency -- Primacy effects in sentence production -- Notes -- References -- Information Distribution in Ojibwa -- Introduction -- Symptomatic analysis of Ojibwa syntax -- Direct analysis of Ojibwa text -- Further observations -- Notes -- References -- Nonidentifiable Information and Pragmatic Order Rules in 'O'odham -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'O'odham constituent order -- 3. Nonidentifiable mentions -- Notes -- References -- Word Order in Klamath -- 1. Methodology -- 2. Object of investigation -- 3. Quantitative results -- 4. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Word Order and Topicality in Nez Perce -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Flexible word order -- 2. Independent pronouns -- 3. Results of topicality measurements -- Notes -- Verb-Subject Order in Polish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data base -- 3. Discourse properties of the subject.

4. Grammatical/semantic properties of subject -- 5. Properties of constituents other than the subject -- 6. Properties of verb -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Pragmatics of Word Order Variationin Chamorro Narrative Text -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Some sample VS and SV sentences -- 4. Principle 1: Word order inversion as a correlate of referential continuity -- 5. Principle 2: Word order inversion as a correlate of thematic continuity -- 6. Explicit reference and ambiguity resolution -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Word Order and Temporal Sequencing -- Notes -- References -- Word Order and Discourse Type An Austronesian Example -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fronted NPs across languages -- 3. Discourse typology -- 4. Pre-verbal NPs in Agutaynen -- 5. Observations -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- References -- Addendum -- Additional references -- On Interpreting Text-Distributional Correlations Some Methodological Issues -- 1. Background -- 2. Form-function distributional correlations in text -- 3. Wider context of the Mandarin data -- 4. Another case of skewed form-function distributional -- 4. The crux of the matter: Hypotheses about the text vs. hypotheses about the mind -- Notes -- References -- The series Typological Studies in Language.