From words to discourse : trends in Spanish semantics and pragmatics / edited by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spanish past and future tenses : less (semantics) is more / Silvia Gennari -- Tensed complements of perception verbs : issues in their interpretation / Alicia Cipria -- Spanish 'aspectual' periphrases : ordering constraints and the distinction between situation and viewpoint aspect / Brenda Laca -- Non-declarative sentences in Spanish : the case of the infinitive / Xosé Rosales Squeiros -- Aspect and situations : a situation semantics account of the semantic variability of Spanish 'al-clauses' / Luis Alonso-Ovalle -- Mental spaces and epistemic attitudes : on the Spanish subjunctive/indicative alternation / Francisco Aliaga and Eduardo de Bustos -- Space accessibility and the pragmatic status of propositions / Errapel Mejías-Bikandi -- Coercion and the stage/individual distinction / Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti -- Some Spanish quantifier modifiers / Richard Zuber -- Demonstratives in context / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach -- Propositional NPIs and the scalar nature of polarity / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott Schwenter -- Degree quantification and modal operators in Spanish / Ignacio Bosque -- The shifted reading of the Spanish simple past as dependent on presupposition accommodation / Rosa J. García Córdoba -- On the interaction of syntax-semantics-pragmatics : a case study / Josep Macià -- Clitic doubling, null objects and clitic climbing in the Spanish of Corrientes / Laura Colantoni -- Spanish no, sí : a particle of politeness / Robert Vann, Joan Busquets and Dale Koike.