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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Optimal Design | |
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Reference-Set Computation | |
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The Minimal Link Condition | |
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Interpretation-Dependent Reference Sets | |
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The Interface Strategy: Repair of Imperfections | |
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Scope Shift | |
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Quantifier Scope: The State of the Art | |
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The Optimistic QR View of the 1970s | |
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The Syntactic Freedom of Existential Wide Scope | |
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Can the Problem with Existentials Be Explained Away? | |
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The "Realistic" QR View of the 1980s | |
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Some Problems | |
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The Alternative of Wide Scope In Situ | |
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Wh-In Situ | |
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Sluicing | |
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The Interpretation Problem of Wide Scope In Situ | |
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Wh-In Situ | |
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Sluicing | |
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Existential Wide Scope | |
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The Semantic Problem with Island-Free QR | |
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An Intermediate Summary | |
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Where No QR Is Needed: Choice Functions for Existential Quantifiers | |
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Choice Functions and Existential Closure | |
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Deriving the Choice-Function Interpretation | |
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The Collective-Distributive Distinction | |
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Which Indefinites Are Interpretable by Choice Functions? | |
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Some Choice-Functions Semantics | |
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Scope-Shift: An Interface Repair Strategy | |
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Minimize Interpretative Options | |
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Applying the Illicit QR as a Repair Strategy | |
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Processing Limitations on the Size of Reference Sets--Indefinite Numerals | |
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Focus: The PF Interface | |
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Sentence Main Stress | |
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Cinque's Main-Stress System | |
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Szendroi's Main-Stress System | |
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How Focus Is Coded | |
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Main Stress and Focus: The Basic View | |
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PF-Coding: The Focus Set | |
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Stress Operations | |
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Focus and Anaphora | |
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The Operations: Destressing and Main-Stress Shift | |
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Reference-Set Computation | |
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Focus Projection | |
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Markedness | |
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The Anaphora Reference-Set Strategy | |
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Two Procedures of Anaphora Resolution | |
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The Current Picture | |
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What is Binding? | |
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Covaluation | |
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Anaphora Restrictions | |
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Restrictions on Binding | |
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Restrictions on Covaluation | |
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The Interface Strategy Governing Covaluation (Rule I) | |
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Minimize Interpretative Options | |
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Reference-Set Computation | |
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Further Details of the Computation | |
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Covaluation in Ellipses Contexts | |
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The Psychological Reality of Rule I | |
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The Processing Cost of Reference-Set Computation | |
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Acquisition of the Coreference Rule I | |
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An Overview of Binding and Rule I | |
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Thornton and Wexler's Arguments against the Processing Account | |
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Questions of Learnability | |
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Explaining Chance Performance | |
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Acquisition of Main-Stress Shift | |
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An Overview of Stress and Focus | |
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Preliminaries | |
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Switch-Reference Resolution | |
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Guess and Default: Focus and Identification in the Scope of Only | |
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Useful and Arbitrary Defaults | |
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Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |