Over the past few decades, the book seriesLinguistische Arbeiten[Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

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