Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

I. Information Structure and Contrastiveness.- 1. Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures.- 2. Partition Semantics and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic.- 3. Deriving the Properties of Structural Focus.- 4. Topic, Focus, and Exhaustive Interpretation.- 5. The Interpretation of a "contrast-marking" Particle.- 6. Scalar Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Discourse Particles: Colloquial Russian -to, ze, and ved' in Combination.-Rusanova.- II. Polarity, Alternatives, Exhaustivity and Implicatures.- 7. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese.- 8. Free Choiceness without Domain-widening.- 9. Expletive Negation and Polarity Alternatives.- 10. On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle - lato .- 11. Disjunction and Implicatures: Some Notes on Recent Developments.- 12. Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics.- III. Quantificational Expressions.- 13. Almost et al.: Scalar Adverbs Revisited.- 14. Interpretations of Numerals and Structured Contexts.- 15. Scales and Non-scales in (Hebrew) Child Language.- 16. Negative Implicatum, Positive Implicatum.- 17. Focus, Contrast, and the Syntax-phonology Interface: The Case of French Cleft-sentences.- 18. Focus Particle Mo and Many/Few Implicatures on Numerals in Japanese.- IV. Questions and Speech Acts.- 19. Negated Polarity Questions as Denegations of Assertions.- 20. Intonation of Wh - and Yes/No-question in Tokyo Japanese.