Ivano Caponigro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Carlo Cecchetto is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

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• List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto; Part I. From Grammar to Meaning: Foundational Issues: 1. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979–1988 Barbara H. Partee; 2. Notes on denotation and denoting Noam Chomsky; Part II. From Grammar to Meaning: Formal Developments, New Findings, and Challenges: 3. On the existential force of bare plurals across languages Veneeta Dayal; 4. Broaden your views, but try to stay focussed: a missing piece in the polarity system Anamaria Fălăuş; 5. On the free choice potential of epistemic and deontic modals Maria Aloni and Michael Franke; 6. Implicatures of modified numerals Clemens Mayr; 7. A scalar semantics for scalar readings of number words Christopher Kennedy; 8. Presuposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening Danny Fox; Part III. From Grammar to Meaning: Experimental Insights: 9. Unification in child language Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton; 10. Acquisition meets comparison: an investigation of gradable adjectives Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo and Maria Teresa Guasti; 11. Intervention in grammar and processing Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi; Appendix A. Gennaro Chierchia's list of publications; Appendix B. 'Logic and Linguistics: A Marriage of Inconvenience'; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.

Ivano Caponigro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Carlo Cecchetto is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

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• List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto; Part I. From Grammar to Meaning: Foundational Issues: 1. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979–1988 Barbara H. Partee; 2. Notes on denotation and denoting Noam Chomsky; Part II. From Grammar to Meaning: Formal Developments, New Findings, and Challenges: 3. On the existential force of bare plurals across languages Veneeta Dayal; 4. Broaden your views, but try to stay focussed: a missing piece in the polarity system Anamaria Fălăuş; 5. On the free choice potential of epistemic and deontic modals Maria Aloni and Michael Franke; 6. Implicatures of modified numerals Clemens Mayr; 7. A scalar semantics for scalar readings of number words Christopher Kennedy; 8. Presuposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening Danny Fox; Part III. From Grammar to Meaning: Experimental Insights: 9. Unification in child language Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton; 10. Acquisition meets comparison: an investigation of gradable adjectives Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo and Maria Teresa Guasti; 11. Intervention in grammar and processing Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi; Appendix A. Gennaro Chierchia's list of publications; Appendix B. 'Logic and Linguistics: A Marriage of Inconvenience'; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.

Ivano Caponigro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Carlo Cecchetto is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

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• List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto; Part I. From Grammar to Meaning: Foundational Issues: 1. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979–1988 Barbara H. Partee; 2. Notes on denotation and denoting Noam Chomsky; Part II. From Grammar to Meaning: Formal Developments, New Findings, and Challenges: 3. On the existential force of bare plurals across languages Veneeta Dayal; 4. Broaden your views, but try to stay focussed: a missing piece in the polarity system Anamaria Fălăuş; 5. On the free choice potential of epistemic and deontic modals Maria Aloni and Michael Franke; 6. Implicatures of modified numerals Clemens Mayr; 7. A scalar semantics for scalar readings of number words Christopher Kennedy; 8. Presuposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening Danny Fox; Part III. From Grammar to Meaning: Experimental Insights: 9. Unification in child language Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton; 10. Acquisition meets comparison: an investigation of gradable adjectives Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo and Maria Teresa Guasti; 11. Intervention in grammar and processing Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi; Appendix A. Gennaro Chierchia's list of publications; Appendix B. 'Logic and Linguistics: A Marriage of Inconvenience'; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.