Abstract

1. List of contributors 2. Introduction 3. I. Pragmatics and Syntax 4. Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy (by Michaelis, Laura A.) 5. The information structure of it-clefts, wh-clefts and reverse wh-clefts in English (by Hedberg, Nancy) 6. Epistemic would, open propositions and truncated clefts (by Ward, Gregory) 7. It's over: Verbal -le in Mandarin Chinese (by Soh, Hooi Ling) 8. II. Pragmatics and Reference 9. Knowing who's important: Relative discourse salience and Irish pronominal forms (by Mulkern, Ann E.) 10. The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs (by Borthen, Kaja) 11. Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal arguments (by Hegarty, Michael) 12. Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference (by Cornish, Francis) 13. 'Switch-polarity' anaphora in English and Norwegian (by Fretheim, Thorstein) 14. What earth: Non-referential interrogatives (by Polinsky, Maria) 15. III. Pragmatic and Social Variables 16. A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions (by Ariel, Mira) 17. Apologies - form and function: think it was your foot I was stepping on (by Rundquist, Suellen) 18. Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructions (by Szatrowski, Polly E.) 19. Index of names 20. Index of subjects

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