Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Sentence Types
5. Implicatures in Discourse 11
6. Permission and Choice 43
7. Promises and Threats with Conditionals and Disjunctions 69
8. Part II. Sentence Types and Clausal Peripheries
9. Revisiting the CP of Clefts 91
10. Delimitation Effects and the Cartography of the Left Periphery 115
11. Sentence Types and the Japanese Right Periphery 147
12. Part III. Clausal Properties of Lexical Categories
13. On NPs and Clauses 179
14. Discerning Default Datives: Some Properties of the Dative Case in German 247
15. How Phase-Based Interpretations Dictate the Typology of Nominalizations 289
16. Scope and Verb Meanings 321