Table of contents -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Approaches to IS -- 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages -- 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology -- 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese -- 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages -- II. IS and Spoken language -- 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance -- 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque -- 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations -- 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even -- 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese -- 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian -- III. IS and Discourse Particles -- 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages -- 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse -- IV. IS and Language Contacts -- 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam -- 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change -- Name index -- Language index.