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Dispersed verbal predicates in vernacular written narrative, Paul J.Hopper; deontic modality and conditionality in discourse - a cross-linguisticstudy of adult speech to young children, Patricia M. Clancy, NorikoAkatasuka, Susan Strauss; discourse motivations for the core-obliquedistinction as a language universal, Sandra A. Thompson; agentivity andaspect in Japanese - a functional perspective, Wesley M. Jacobsen; on thefunctions of left-dislocation in English discourse, Ellen F. Price;evidentiality and some discourse characteristics in Japanese, Akio Kamio; onJapanese quantifier floating, Shoko Hamano; the battle over anaphoric"islands" - syntax versus pragmatics, Gregory Ward; structural or functionalaccounts?, Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami.