Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation

Preface; 1. Structural Relations and Restrictions; 1.1 Syntactic Domains 1.2 C-Command 1.3 domain Restrictions and Interpretative Rules; 2. Conference of Definite NPs; 2.1 Theoretical Assumptions 2.2 The Non-relevance of 'Precede-and-Command' 2.3 The C-Command Rule 2.4 A Comparison Between the C-Command and the Precede-and-Command Rules 2.5 Coreference in Sentences with Extraposed Clauses 2.6 PPs and Indirect Objects 2.7 Coordinate Structures; 3. Prepositional Phrases and Preposed Constituents; 3.1 Sentential and Verb-phrasal Prepositional Phrases 3.2 Preposed PPs 3.3 Topicalisation and Left-dislocation 3.4 Summary; 4. A Survey of Functional Approaches to Definite NP Anaphora; 4.1 Discourse-oriented Approaches 4.2 Relational-grammar Approaches 4.3 Semantic Approaches; 5. Bound Anaphora; 5.1 Quantified Antecedents 5.2 Reflective and Reciprocal Pronounds; 6. The Indexing System of Interpretative Semantics; 6.1 A summary of the Anaphora Conditions 6.2 The Indexing System; 7. The Interpretation of Pronouns: A Restatement of the Anaphora Problems; 7.1 The Problems with the Current Anaphora Picture 7.2 Coreference and Bound Anaphora 7.3 The Coindexing Procedure and the Interpretation of Coindexing 7.4 Coreference 7.5 Summary; 8. Unsolved Problems of Anaphora; 8.1 PP Problems 8.2 Possessive NPs 8.3 'Experiencing' Verbs; 9. Other Interpretative Rules; 9.1 Function-argument Representations 9.2 Relative Scope of Quantifiers 9.3 Theme-rheme Relations; 10. The Psychological Reality of the C-Command Conditions; 10.1 Syntactic Rules 10.2 Processing Strategies; References; Index