Necessary Conditions in a Natural Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction 10
4. Asymmetry in Emphatic Topicalization 15
5. The Resultative Parameter and Restitutive Again 48
6. What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't? 70
7. "Wi(e)der" and "Again(st)" 101
8. When Formal Features Need Company 131
9. Focus and Phrasing in French 153
10. Tense, Reference Time, and Language Impairment in German Children 182
11. Degree Operators and Scope (A)temporal Complements 214
12. Focussed Number Phrases 259
13. Time and Again 267
14. For a Structured Meaning Account of Questions and Answers 287
15. Learning French from a Dictionary 320
16. Multihead Comparatives and Result Clause Constructions with "Split Antecedents" 348
17. Narrowing down the ExtendedNow 372
18. The Attributive Past Participle: Structure and Temporal Interpretation 392
19. Anteriority versus Extended-Now: Theories of the German Perfect 410
20. Necessary Conditions in a Natural Language 427
21. The Way of Truth 450
22. Partial Movement Constructions, Pied Piping, and Higher Order Choice Functions 473
23. Prelexical Syntax and the Voice Hypothesis 487
24. Unspecificity and Intensionality 514
25. List of Publications 534
26. List of Supervised Dissertations 541