| List of figures | p. ix |
| List of tables | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| What this book is about and how to use it | p. 1 |
| The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary Human | p. 1 |
| How to use this book | p. 3 |
| Notation and terminology | p. 4 |
| Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes | p. 5 |
| Generalized quantifiers - heroes or old fogeys? | p. 5 |
| Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes | p. 6 |
| Scope and constituent structure | p. 11 |
| The basic idea | p. 11 |
| The (first) proper treatment of quantification: Montague | p. 12 |
| Interlude: quantifier phrases do not directly bind pronouns | p. 14 |
| Quantifier Raising: May | p. 16 |
| All the scopes, but a simple syntax: Hendriks | p. 19 |
| Continuations and scope: Barker and Shan | p. 23 |
| Summary and Direct Compositionality | p. 32 |
| Generalized quantifiers in non-nominal domains | p. 33 |
| Domains of quantification | p. 33 |
| Raising verbs as quantifiers | p. 36 |
| Some empirically significant properties of quantifiers and determiners | p. 45 |
| Quantifiers | p. 46 |
| Boolean compounds | p. 46 |
| Monotonicity: increasing, decreasing, and non-monotonic quantifiers | p. 50 |
| Witnesses: the sets quantifiers contribute to interpretation | p. 55 |
| Monotonicity and existential quantification over sets | p. 56 |
| Determiner denotations | p. 60 |
| Determiners as relations or two-place functions | p. 60 |
| The determiner's restriction | p. 62 |
| Summary | p. 70 |
| Potential challenges for generalized quantifiers | p. 71 |
| Referential indefinites | p. 71 |
| Collective readings | p. 72 |
| Type multiplicity | p. 73 |
| Presuppositions and the weak/strong distinction | p. 75 |
| Implicatures | p. 76 |
| Comparative and superlative determiners vis-à-vis compositionality | p. 77 |
| De re vs. de dicto, local vs. global | p. 80 |
| Cross-linguistic variation | p. 82 |
| Interim summary | p. 82 |
| Scope is not uniform and not a primitive | p. 83 |
| Different quantifiers, different scopes | p. 83 |
| Quantifiers or referring expressions? | p. 86 |
| How to obtain reliable scope data | p. 87 |
| Existential scope versus distributive scope | p. 91 |
| Indefinites | p. 91 |
| No such thing as "the scope" of an indefinite | p. 91 |
| Existential closure of a choice function variable | p. 93 |
| Skolemized choice functions | p. 96 |
| Universals of the every NP-type | p. 102 |
| Existential vs. distributive scope in universals | p. 102 |
| Inducing and exhibiting referential variation | p. 103 |
| Indefinites and universals unified? | p. 104 |
| Do all "quantifier phrases" have the same dual scope behavior? | p. 106 |
| Summary | p. 108 |
| Distributivity and scope | p. 109 |
| Background notions: sorting keys, distributed shares, and events | p. 109 |
| Distributive readings with plural (in)definites | p. 113 |
| Distributivity and cumulativity | p. 113 |
| All, both, stressed AND, and some cross-linguistic counterparts | p. 117 |
| Distributive singular quantifiers | p. 121 |
| Floating quantifiers, anti-quantifiers, and dependent plurals | p. 129 |
| Floating quantifiers: an overview | p. 129 |
| Binominal each and other anti-quantifiers | p. 130 |
| Plurals - dependent plurals among them | p. 133 |
| Numeral reduplication as NumP pluralization | p. 135 |
| All NP/NumP pluralization is event-key distribution | p. 137 |
| Referential dependency: event semantics vis-à-vis Skolemization | p. 139 |
| Bare numeral indefinites | p. 141 |
| The flexible DP hypothesis | p. 141 |
| How many is two? | p. 144 |
| Cardinal vs. individual readings of numeral indefinites | p. 151 |
| Numeral interpretation, agreement, and the split-DP hypothesis | p. 153 |
| Summary | p. 160 |
| Modified numerals | p. 161 |
| The absence of scalar implicatures in modified numerals | p. 161 |
| The non-synonymy of comparative and superlative modifiers | p. 166 |
| The split-scope analysis of comparative quantifiers | p. 167 |
| More than half, most of the, and the most | p. 169 |
| Counting quantifiers | p. 171 |
| Summary and experimental evidence | p. 175 |
| Clause-internal scopal diversity | p. 177 |
| The basic facts | p. 177 |
| The basic approaches | p. 179 |
| Scope as a by-product of feature checking | p. 180 |
| Scope restrictions, internal structure, economy | p. 185 |
| Cross-linguistic hypotheses | p. 187 |
| Towards a compositional semantics of quantifier words | p. 189 |
| Is there interesting syntax in and around universal quantifiers? | p. 190 |
| The view from Lillooet: quantifier words operate on DP | p. 191 |
| A closer look at determiners: Mandarin, Modern Greek, and Hungarian | p. 194 |
| And finally, the deep end: diving into quantifier words in German | p. 198 |
| Word-internal compositionality? Cross-linguistic isomorphy? | p. 202 |
| Notes | p. 206 |
| Bibliography | p. 222 |
| Index | p. 248 |
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