CONTENTS
List of Contributors page = ⅸ
Preface / Peter Bosch ; Rob van der Sandt = xi
Part Ⅰ Surface Realization of Focus
1 Contrastive Stress, Contrariety, and Focus / Kees van Deemter = 3
2 The Processing of Information Structure / Carsten G u ·· nther ; Claudia Maienborn ; Andrea Schopp = 18
3 On the Limits of Focus Projection in English / Carlos Gussenhoven = 43
4 Informational Autonomy / Joachim Jacobs = 56
5 Subject-Prodrop in Yiddish / Ellen F. Prince = 82
Part Ⅱ Semantic Interpretation of Focus Phenomena
6 What Is the Alternative? The Computation of Focus Alternatives from Lexical and Sortal Information / Peter I. Blok ; Kurt Eberle = 105
7 The Treatment of Focusing Particles in Underspecified Discourse Representations / Johan Bos = 121
8 Topic / Daniel B u ·· ring = 142
9 Focus with Nominal Quantifiers / Regine Eckardt = 166
10 Topic, Focus, and Weak Quantifiers / Gerhard J a ·· ger = 187
11 Focus, Quantification, and Semantics-Pragmatics Issues / Barbara H. Partee = 213
12 Association with Focus or Association with Presupposition? / Mats Rooth = 232
Part Ⅲ The Function of Focus in Discourse
13 Discourse and the Focus/Background Distinction / Nicholas Asher = 247
14 Domain Restriction / Bart Geurts ; Rob van der Sandt = 268
15 On Different Kinds of Focus / Jeanette K. Gundel = 293
16 Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns : Complementary Preferences / Megumi Kameyama = 306
17 Discourse Linking and Discourse Subordination / Kjell Johan SœbØ = 322
18 Position and Meaning : Time Adverbials in Context / Henri e ·· tte de Swart = 336
Name Index = 363
Subject Index = 366