Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Contents:
The view from the syntax-semantics interface -- Scope parallelism and the interpretation of ellipsis -- Indefinites and sentential modality -- Existence and beyond: varieties of having -- Free relatives and quantificational variability -- Correlatives and degrees -- Concessive conditionals and scalarity -- Superlatives, degrees and focus -- The dimensions of modal discourse particles -- Final thoughts on quantities, structures and meaning.
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