As previous research has suggested (Haiman & Thompson 1988, Bybee & Noonan 2002), speakers’ strategies of clause-combining may be more diverse than hitherto accounted for. From assessing different degrees of syntactic integration (Evans 2009) and different levels of dependence (Mithun 2008, Verstraete & D’Hertefelt 2014) to exploring the (non)discreteness of the different categories (Croft 2000), scholars have developed an interest in new accounts for the diversity of clause-combining relations and strategies observed in speakers’ discourse. In the same vein, our project aims to better understand the nature of the grammar-discourse interface by investigating so called hypothetical manner clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective, comparing two Germanic languages (Dutch alsof-clauses and English as if-clauses) and two Romance languages (French comme si-clauses and Spanish como si-clauses). After an introduction to the project, we will devote this seminar to the results from our two case studies, in which we investigate how both the syntactic and the discourse-pragmatic configurations of hypothetical manner clauses are reflected in prosodic realization. We will show that, while the correlation between functional profiles and pitch contour remain specific to each language, speakers do consistently co-signal syntactic and prosodic integration (Elvira-García et al. 2017), using the same prosodic strategies (i.e. phrasing, onset, pausing, contours) cross-linguistically. References Bybee, J. L. & Noonan, M. (Eds.). (2002). Complex sentences in grammar and discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson. John Benjamins Publishing. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Approach. London: Longman. D’Hertefelt, S., & Verstraete, J. C. (2014). Independent complement constructions in Swedish and Danish: Insubordination or dependency shift?. Journal of Pragmatics, 60, 89-102. Elvira-García, W., Roseano, P. & Fernández-Planas, A.-M. (2017). Prosody as a cue for syntactic dependency. Evidence from dependent and independent clauses with subordination marks in Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics, 109, 29-46. Evans, N. (2007). Insubordination and its uses. In Finiteness: Theoretical and empirical foundations. Oxford University Press. Haiman, J. & Thompson, S. A. (Eds.). (1988). Clause combining in grammar and discourse (Vol. 18). John Benjamins Publishing. Mithun, M. (2008). The extension of dependency beyond the sentence. Language, 69-119.