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Part 1 Deriving logical representations - a proposal: the syntacticroots of indefinite interpretations; semantic partition and theinterpretation of indefinites; syntactic factors in the semantics of NPs - apreview. Part 2 Initial evidence in favour of the mapping hypothesis: thereadings of bare plurals; the syntactic connection-deriving the two readings;two subject positions in German - an IP/VP contrast; delineating the limitsof the predicate classification; focus and the bare plural readings. Part 3Tree splitting and the interpretation of indefinites: tree splitting andquantification; QR, presuppositions, and the mapping hypothesis; Dutchsubjects, Turkish objects, and "Specificity"; some final remarks on thenature of specificity. Part 4 Presupposition, extraction, and logical form: ataxonomy of indefinites; extraction from NP - some initial observations;quantification and extraction from NP; formulating the extraction constraint.