Contents: Part One: Topicality and Centrality. I. Discourse salience and staging effects: The grammar of the direct object. II. The grammar of whole/part relations.III. Reflexive passive versaus plain passive. IV. Discourse coherence and verbal non-tensed forms: The suppine. Part Two: Expectation. V. Identity and denial: The pragmatics of `same' and `self'. VI. Beyond logical operators: Romanian adversative conjunctions.Part Three: Grammar and Narrative Stragegies. VII. The narrative functions of croxx-sentential anaphoric subjects.VIII. Iconicity in synthax: Past tenses in middle Romanian. IN Lieu of Conclusion. IX. A multivariable model of gender: When neuter becomes neutral.General Bibliography. Index of Linguistic Terms.