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List of contributors; Preface Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt; Part I.SURFACE REALISATION OF FOCUS: 1. Contrastive stress, contrariety and focusKees van Deemter; 2. The processing of information structure Carsten Gunther,Claudia Maienborn, and Andrea Schopp; 3. On the limits of focus projection inEnglish Carlos Gussenhoven; 4. Informational autonomy Joachim Jacobs; 5.Subject-prodrop in Yiddish Ellen F. Prince; Part II. SEMANTIC INTERPRETATIONOF FOCUS PHENOMENA: 6. What is the alternative? The computation of focusalternatives from lexical and sortal information Peter I. Blok and KurtEberle; 7. The treatment of focusing particles in underspecified discourserepresentations Johan Bos; 8. Topic Daniel Buring; 9. Focus with nominalquantifiers Regine Eckardt; 10. Topic, focus and weak quantifiers GerhardJager; 11. Focus, quantification, and semantics-pragmatics issues Barbara H.Partee; 12. Association with focus or association with presupposition MatsRooth; Part III. The Function of Focus in Discourse: 13. Discourse and thefocus/background distinction Nicholas Asher; 14. Domain restriction BartGeurts and Rob van de Sandt; 15. On different kinds of focus Jeanette K.Gundel; 16. Stressed and unstressed pronouns: complementary preferencesMegumi Kameyama; 17. Discourse linking and discourse subordination KjellJohan S'bo; 18. Position and meaning: time adverbials in context Henrietta deSwart; Name index; Subject index.