Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Part I. Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
5. Chapter I-1 Introduction to the field: Syntax and semantics 3
6. Chapter I-2 Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules 18
7. Chapter I-3 A systematic way of constructing phrases 38
8. Chapter I-4 Clause structure and movement 61
9. Chapter I-5 Goals and methods in semantics 89
10. Chapter I-6 Composing sentence meanings – first steps 102
11. Chapter I-7 Extending the theory 111
12. Chapter I-8 NP semantics 123
13. Appendix: Syntactic and semantic rules from Part I 144
14. Part II. Extending the Theory and Applying it to Crosslinguistic Differences
15. Chapter II-1 Introduction and roadmap to the second part 151
16. Chapter II-2 Clause structure - English and German 159
17. Chapter II-3 Quantifiers and scope 183
18. Chapter II-4 Negation and polarity 221
19. Chapter II-5 Focus 235
20. Chapter II-6 Ellipsis 253
21. Chapter II-7 Tense and aspect 269
22. Chapter II-8 Conclusions 292
23. References 298
24. Index 312