Preliminary Material / Talmy Givón -- On the Explanation of Transformations / Chet A. Greider -- Discourse without Syntax / Erica C. Garcia -- Planned and Unplanned Discourse / Elinor Ochs -- From Discourse to Syntax: Grammar as a Processing Strategy / Talmy Givón -- The Paragraph as a Grammatical Unit / R. E. Longacre -- Organizational Patterns in Discourse / John Hinds -- The Flow of Thought and the Flow of Language / Wallace L. Chafe -- Communicative Goals and Strategies: Between Discourse and Syntax / David M. Levy -- Aspect and Foregrounding in Discourse / Paul J. Hopper -- The Figure a Sentence Makes: An Interpretation of a Classical Malay Sentence / A. L. Becker -- The Relevance of Repair to Syntax-for-Conversation / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Pronouns in Discourse / Dwight Bolinger -- Third-Person Pronouns and Zero-Anaphora in Chinese Discourse / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson -- Focus of Attention and the Choice of Pronouns in Discourse / Charlotte Linde -- Deixis in Discourse: An Exploratory Quantitative Study of the Modem Dutch Demonstrative Adjectives / Robert S. Kirsner -- Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation / Alessandro Duranti and Elinor Ochs -- Anything You Can Do / Suzanne Laberge and Gillian Sankoffa -- Discourse Constraints on Dative Movement / Nomi Ertescik-Shir -- Discourse Function of Morphology: The Focus System in German / David A. Zubin -- The Development of the Swahili Object Marker: A Study of the Interaction of Syntax and Discourse / Benji Wald -- Subject Index / Talmy Givón -- Contents of Previous Volumes / Talmy Givón.

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