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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 | |