Old and new propositions

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Semantic Form as Interface 1
5. Verb Meaning: How much Semantics is in the Lexicon? 33
6. ‘Was noch?’ Navigating in Question Answer Discourse 77
7. Old and new propositions 97
8. Deriving selectional properties of ‘exclamative’ predicates 115
9. German w-clauses at the left and right periphery of copular sentences 141
10. On the Syntax of Prepositional Phrases 157
11. The Structure of Events in Word Formation 181
12. The lexical content of connectors and its interplay with intonation. An interim balance on sentential connection in discourse 199
13. Contextual Boundness and Contrast in the Prague Dependency Treebank 231
14. On the Semantic Foundations of the Contrastive Focus Within a Lexicalist Approach 245
15. Focus on focus: The brain’s electrophysiological response to focus particles and accents in German 277
16. Corpus- and psycholinguistic investigations of linguistic constraints on German object order 299
17. Some contextual effects of aboutness topics in German 329
18. Interfaces, (Non-)Compositionality, Information Structure and Presupposition 349
19. Subject Index 379