The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive

introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of

subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between

subordination/coordination at the sentence level and

subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical

organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are

concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of

corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and

discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English,

German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers

addressing specific - predominantly semantic - topics relating to

German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the

topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a

diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims

to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on

the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as

well as cross-linguistically.