Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Pragmatics and Syntax
6. Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy 19
7. The information structure of it -clefts, wh -clefts and reverse wh -clefts in English 49
8. Epistemic would , open propositions and truncated clefts 77
9. It’s over 91
10. II. Pragmatics and Reference
11. Knowing who’s important 113
12. The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs 143
13. Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal arguments 171
14. Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference 189
15. ‘Switch-polarity’ anaphora in English and Norwegian 217
16. What on earth 245
17. III. Pragmatic and Social Variables
18. A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions 265
19. Apologies — form and function 293
20. Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructions 313
21. Index of names 341
22. Index of subjects 344