Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics this volume gives a
representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching
topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in
syntax and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic
terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth they can all be seen
to make their specific contributions to it scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the
grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies.The first part of this collection
comprises three papers (by Asher Portner and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics
pragmatics interface. The second part with contributions by Rizzi Saito and Belletti deals
with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of
functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Boskovic van Riemsdijk
Bauke & Roeper Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional
categories revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure
particularly in lexical categories.
