SCOPE AND SPECIFICITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Scope Dependency -- 2.1 Semantic Scope Dependency -- 2.2 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter Three. Generalized Specificity -- 3.1 Four Types of NPs -- 3.2 G-specific NPs and Non-specific NPs -- 3.3 G-specific/Non-specific Distinction -- 3.3.1 Characteristics of G-specific NPs -- 3.3.2 Bare numerals vs. at least n and exactly n -- 3.3.3 A certain -- 3.4 Specificity in the Literature -- 3.5 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter Four. Branching Quantifiers -- 4.1 The branching reading -- 4.1.1 Previous studies -- 4.1.2 Branching in basic transitive sentences -- 4.1.3 Cross-linguistic evidence of branching -- 4.2 Scope Interaction in Chinese -- 4.2.1 Ambiguity or non-ambiguity? -- 4.2.2 Issues reconsidered -- 4.2.2.1 Active sentences -- 4.2.2.2 Passive sentences -- 4.2.2.3 Do NP-traces play a role in scope interpretation? -- 4.2.2.4 Summary -- 4.2.3 More of the branching reading -- 4.3 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter Five. G-specificity in Chinese -- 5.1 NP types in Chinese -- 5.1.1 NP types -- 5.1.1.1 Basic NPs vs. complex NPs -- 5.1.1.2 Determiners -- 5.1.1.3 DE -- 5.1.1.4 Bare NPs -- 5.1.2 Expressions that are not NPs -- 5.1.2.1 Modified numerical expressions -- 5.1.2.2 Decreasing NPs -- 5.1.3 G-specific and non-specific NPs in Chinese -- 5.2 NP distribution -- 5.2.1 An old observation -- 5.2.2 Preverbal NPs -- 5.3 Dou and G-specificity -- 5.3.1 Some properties of dou -- 5.3.2 Dou and G-specific NPs -- 5.3.3 Looking ahead -- 5.4 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter Six. Wh/Quantifier Interaction -- 6.1 May (1985, 1988) and Williams (1986, 1988) -- 6.2 What does it mean for Wh to be scope-independent? -- 6.3 An alternative -- 6.3.1 The subject/object asymmetry -- 6.3.2 The D-structure position of Wh -- 6.4 The QR approach.

6.4.1 How scope is determined -- 6.4.1.1 VP-adjunction -- 6.4.1.2 S maximal or non-maximal -- 6.4.2 Scope as a structural phenomenon -- 6.4.2.1 Four types of NPs revisited -- 6.4.2.2 Inverse linking -- 6.4.3 Predictions of the QR approach -- 6.5 Williams' Q-Superiority -- 6.6 Facts about Wh/quantifier interactions -- 6.6.1 Summary of facts observed so far -- 6.6.2 who/what vs. which -- 6.7 LF or SS -- 6.8 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter Seven. Recent development -- 7.1 Kitihara (1992, 1996) -- 7.1.1 Analysis -- 7.1.2 Comments -- 7.2 Beghelli (1993) -- 7.2.1 Analysis -- 7.2.2 Comments -- 7.3 Reinhart (1995) -- 7.3.1 Analysis -- 7.3.2 Comments -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter Eight. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.