Information structure, argument structure, and typological variation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Editorial preface xi
5. Negation
6. Distributional restrictions on negative determiners 3
7. Towards a comprehensive view of Negative Concord 29
8. Temporality
9. On temporal constructions involving counting from anchor points 45
10. On the semantics and pragmatics of situational anaphoric temporal locators in Portuguese and in English 61
11. Remarks on the semantics of eventualities with measure phrases in English and Romanian 75
12. The present perfect in English and in Catalan 101
13. A contrastive reading of temporal-aspectual morphemes in Swahili 117
14. Modality
15. Semantic and pragmatic constraints on mood selection 129
16. Dilemmas and excogitations 147
17. Evidentiality
18. Inferred evidence 177
19. Extension of meaning 193
20. Perspectives on eventualities
21. Information structure, argument structure, and typological variation 223
22. The network of demotion 245
23. Valence change and the function of intransitive verbs in English and Japanese 261
24. The transitive/intransitive construction of events in Japanese and English discourse 277
25. Topics in grammar and conceptualization
26. Towards a universal DRT model for the interpretation of directional PPs within a reference frame 295
27. The interaction of syntax and pragmatics 307
28. Constraint interaction at the semantics/pragmatics interface 335
29. Cross-language commutation tests and their application to an error-prone contrastive problem 355
30. Language index 371
31. Name index 373
32. Subject index 375
33. Contents of Volume 2 381