Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Section I: Underspecification in the lexicon
5. Underspecification in the Lexicon: The Indo-European Root Cconcept 3
6. Multiple suffixes and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages 21
7. The Structure of the Indo-European Lexicon: Nominal Word Formation and the Secondary Lexicon 45
8. Underspecification and the noun/verb distinction: Late Archaic Chinese and Khmer 55
9. Section II: Underspecification and coercion
10. Underspecification and Coercion: Nouns and Nominalizations in German 85
11. What Kind of Events Do Achievements Describe? 109
12. Right Boundary Achievements under Conative Negation 145
13. Negating Right Boundary Achievements (Comments on Malink) 163
14. Section III: Empirical evidence on the linearization of German
15. Comparing Linguistic Judgments and Corpus Frequencies as Windows on Grammatical Competence: A Study of Argument Linearization in German Clauses 179
16. Effects of Local Context on Argument Number and Verb Type Expectations 193
17. Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English 207
18. Section IV: Underspecification in information– and discourse structure
19. Russian Interrogatives and Intonational Categories 227
20. Prosody and Information Structure of Factive Embeddings in Russian 271
21. The Prosody of Adversative Constructions in West Slavic Languages 301
22. The Syntax of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures 321
23. When the Negative Goes Missing: The Role of the Information Structure in Gapping Coordinations with but 359
24. Focus and Emphasis in Tone and Intonational Languages 389
25. Studies on the Acceptability of Object Movement to Spec,CP 413
26. Focus Particles in the German Middlefield 439
27. Word order, Clitics, and Agreement in Arabic Information Structure 461
28. Information Structure in Ancient Greek 487
29. Semantic Composition of German Information Structures with Operators 513
30. Semantic Contributions of the Left Periphery to Discourse Linking: The Case of Topics in the Prefield and Middlefield in German 533
31. Dimensions of Discourse: Presuppositions of (German) Connectors 551
32. Implicated Presuppositions 581
33. Backmatter 601