1. Introduction; 2. Is there a passive in Nahuatl? (by Canger, Una); 3. Grammaticalized focus in Yukagir: Is it really grammaticalized and is it really focus? (by Fortescue, Michael); 4. Iconic motivations in conflict: Language-specific structure and influence from the medium (by Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth); 5. The syntax of Danish verbs: Lexical and syntactic transitivity (by Durst-Andersen, Per); 6. From lexical potential to syntactic realization: A Danish verb valency model (by Rasmussen, Lone Schack); 7. Danish directional adverbs: Content syntax and complex predicates - a case for host and co-predicates (by Harder, Peter); 8. Danish passives and subject positions as a mood system: A content analysis (by Heltoft, Lars); 9. Information structure and the anatomy of the noun phrase: The expression of subject and object in Danish noun phrases (by Baron, Irene); 10. Topic continuity and prosody: An experimental study in Danish (by Kristiansen, Erik); 11. Discourse particles in Danish (by Davidsen-Nielsen, Niels); 12. Eh bien: Marker of comparison and contrast (by Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt); 13. The degrammaticalization of agentivity in Tlapanec (by Wichmann, Soren); 14. The functions of locative prepositions (by Spang-Hanssen, Ebbe); 15. Communicative function and language-specific structure in second language acquisition: A discussion of natural sequences of acquisition (by Lund, Karen); 16. Theoretical considerations; 17. Linguistic structure in a functional grammar (by Harder, Peter); 18. Iconicity and arbitrariness (by Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth); 19. Paradigmatic structure, word order and grammaticalization (by Heltoft, Lars); 20. Subject index; 21. Index of names