This book combines studies on referential as well as relational coherence and includes approaches to written and to spoken language, to production and to compre

COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific langu

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual