Focus: Linguistic, cognitive, and computational perspectives

List of contributors Preface Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt Part I. SURFACE REALISATION OF FOCUS: 1. Contrastive stress, contrariety and focus Kees van Deemter 2. The processing of information structure Carsten Gunther, Claudia Maienborn, and Andrea Schopp 3. On the limits of focus projection in English Carlos Gussenhoven 4. Informational autonomy Joachim Jacobs 5. Subject-prodrop in Yiddish Ellen F. Prince 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 and Kurt Eberle 7. The treatment of focusing particles in underspecified discourse representations Johan Bos 8. Topic Daniel Buring 9. Focus with nominal quantifiers Regine Eckardt 10. Topic, focus and weak quantifiers Gerhard Jager 11. Focus, quantification, and semantics-pragmatics issues Barbara H. Partee 12. Association with focus or association with presupposition Mats Rooth Part III. The Function of Focus in Discourse: 13. Discourse and the focus/background distinction Nicholas Asher 14. Domain restriction Bart Geurts and Rob van de Sandt 15. On different kinds of focus Jeanette K. Gundel 16. Stressed and unstressed pronouns: complementary preferences Megumi Kameyama 17. Discourse linking and discourse subordination Kjell Johan Saebo 18. Position and meaning: time adverbials in context Henrietta de Swart Name index Subject index.