Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contrast, the fall-rise accent, and Information Focus / Hetland, Jorunn -- Iconic and categorical focus systems in Scandinavian / Heltoft, Lars -- Are Finnish null subjects null topics? / Järventausta, Marja -- Discourse configurationality in Finnish and Hungarian / Molnár, Valéria / Järventausta, Marja -- The relation between morphological case, syntactic functions and thematic roles in Icelandic: A frequency analysis / Barödal, Johanna -- Passive as activity aspect. On the relation between aspectuality and passive: A comparative study of German and Swedish / Landén, Barbro / Molnár, Valéria -- The passive in Icelandic - compared to Mainland Scandinavian / Barðdal, Johanna / Molnár, Valéria -- Authors' addresses |