This volume is devoted to the subjects "information structure" and "contrast." The working hypothesis of this part of the project is that, apart from the use of lexical indication, the expression of contrast vs. correction is primarily carried by the intonation contour as a means for indicating scope and focus in negating constructions. The papers in this volume proceed from the premise that the information structure is preformed conceptually, and on articulation in the dynamic context is then portioned and linearized, mapped onto the syntactic representation via the semantic representation, and finally realized intonationally. The findings are partly based on neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experiments. Anita Steube is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Leipzig.FROM THE CONTENTSEva Hajicová and Petr SgallDegrees of Contrast and the Topic-Focus Articulation Anita Steube, Kai Alter, and Andreas SpäthInformation Structure and Modular Grammar Andreas Späth and Martin TrautweinNegative Descriptions of Events: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects ofSentence Negation and its Relevance for Information Structure Beáta GyurisTwo Types of Contrastive Topics? Ingolf MaxInformation Structure – Two-dimensionally Explicated Brigitta HaftkaTopic Constraints in the German Middlefield Rosemarie LührContrastive Word Stress in Vedic Endo- and Exocentric Compounds Thomas WeskottTowards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness Claudia Hruska and Kai AlterProsody in Dialogues and Single Sentences: How Prosody can influence SpeechPerception Ulrike Toepel and Kai AlterOn the Independence of Information Structural Processing from Prosody Grit MehldornThe Prosodic Pattern of Contrastive Accent in RussianBritta Stolterfoht and Markus BaderFocus Structure and the Processing of Word Order Variations in German Carla Umbach, Ina Mleinek, Christine Lehmann, Thomas Weskott, Kai Alter, and Anita SteubeIntonational Patterns in Contrast and Concession Dorothee FehrmannProsody in Contrast: Prosodic Distinction of Contrast and Correction.Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate StructuresDate of Publication: 9/2004To order, please contact SFG Servicecenter-FachverlagePostfach 434372774 Reutlingen, GermanyFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.com