Links without Locations Information Packaging: From Cards to Boxes

This paper is organized as follows. First, in Section 1, an outline is given of the theory of information packaging|i.e., the structuring of propositional content in function of the speaker's assumptions about the hearer's information state|as it is presented by Vallduv (1992, 1993, 1994), who identiies the informational primitives focus and ground, link and tail, adapted from the traditional pragmatic focus/ground and topic/comment approaches, and 1. The present paper is a merged, updated and extended version of`Links without Lo-cations' and`Information Packaging: From Cards to Boxes', which appeared in P.