Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Topic and Focus -- 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F -- 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody -- 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity -- 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics -- 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts -- 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse -- Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change -- 8 Towards a typology of focus realization -- 9 Focus in Aghem -- 10 Subject focus in West African languages -- 11 Information structure and OV order -- 12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic -- Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches -- 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order -- 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution -- 15 Given and new information in spatial statements -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.