THE COMPOSITION OF MEANING -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- The composition of meaning -- Note -- References -- Part I. Mapping syntactic structure to meaning -- Coordination in morphology and syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coordination in syntax and morphology -- 3. The compound template -- 4. Instantiation of determinative and copulative readings -- 5. Copulative `compounds' in Sanskrit -- 6. Semantic properties of copulative compounds in English -- 6.1. True copulatives -- 6.2. Copulatives as front forms -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Aspect, infinitival complements, and evidentials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Are bare infinitives perfectives in English? -- 3. Bare infinitives: Infinitival endings and perfectivity -- 3.1. Perception verb complements (hence PVCs) -- 3.2. The use of the simple present -- 4. The reanalysis of -ing as ASP -- 4.1. ASP -- 4.2. Changes in ASP -- 5. Perception verbs in Modern English and Dutch -- 5.1. Three kinds of see -- 5.2. More evidence -- 6. Conclusion and further research -- Notes -- Abreviations used -- References -- The problem of unintelligibility -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ineffability -- 3. Unintelligibility -- 4. Towards solving the problem -- 5. Unintelligibility in a bidirectional OT framework -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- VP-internal subjects as `unaccusatives' -- 1. A brief intellectual history of `Burzio's Generalization'1 -- 2. The (in)transitivity division -- 3. What do ergative predicates have to do with the definiteness property in existential sentences? -- 4. Toward an answer: The questions to be asked - and first answers: Aspect and Aktionsart perfectivity -- 5. Unaccusativity in German: A unified semantic-syntactic category (common denominator for eV-tests) -- 6. `There is/are' as an alleged test for ergative predicates.

7. Theoretical aporia -- 8. `Unaccusative/ergative predicate': Simply a misnomer based on observational inadequacy? -- 9. The paradoxality of Burzio's Generalization in German -- 10. The perfect fit of the `Perfectivity Account' in terms of theta role distribution -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Mapping meaning to information structure -- Either, both and neither in coordinate structures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Either -- 2.1. The distribution of either -- 2.2. The interaction of either with intonation -- 2.3. Scope ambiguities with either -- 2.4. The contribution of either to the interpretation of the sentence -- 2.5. Inclusive versus exclusive disjunction -- 3. Both -- 3.1. The distribution of both -- 3.2. The interaction of both with intonation -- 3.3. The contribution of both to the interpretation of the sentence -- 3.4. Collective versus distributive readings -- 4. Neither -- 4.1. The distribution of neither -- 4.2. The interaction of neither with intonation -- 4.3. The contribution of neither to the interpretation of the sentence -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Information structure meets Minimalist syntax* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case system of (Middle) Bavarian -- 3. Word order in (Middle) Bavarian -- 4. Scrambling and the MP -- 4.1. Object scrambling: Data -- 4.2. Object scrambling: Explanation(s) -- 4.3. CS and the information structure -- 5. The Principle of Strong Morphology -- 6. Other languages showing similar properties -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Focus particles, sentence meaning, and discourse structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conceptual background of the information dichotomy -- 3. Semantic theories of association with focus -- 3.1. Structured Meanings -- 3.2. Alternative Semantics -- 3.3. Comparing semantic theories of information structure.

4. Association with focus in definite NPs -- 5. Discourse structure -- 6. Foreground-Background Semantics -- 7. Summary -- Notes -- References -- On the interpretation of multiple negation in spoken and written Afrikaans -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical data -- 3. Discussion: The structure of negation in Afrikaans -- 3.1. General conditions of Neg-percolation -- 3.2. Negative quantifiers in Spec-Neg -- 4. The puzzle - the spell-out of additional negation copies in the scope domain -- 5. Towards a solution - the identification of functional domains -- 6. Interpreting negation in the spoken language - negation copies as scope-shibboleths -- 6.1. Negative spread as a rhema-shibboleth -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.