Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: The semantics-pragmatics interface from linguistic and metalinguistic perspectives -- Part One Issues of referentiality -- On the definiteness effect in existential sentences: Data and theories -- On the semantics and pragmatics of shifted indexicals -- Demonstratives and reference to individuated objects vs. reference to properties of objects: A contrastive analysis -- Part Two Scalar implicatures and beyond -- Two experiments and some suggestions on the meaning of scalars and numerals -- Some experimental aspects of optimality theoretic pragmatics -- Part Three Pragmatic ways from words to constructions and utterances -- The cognitive background of grammaticalization -- From syntactic alternations to lexical pragmatics -- How lexical-semantic factors influence the verbs' occurrence with implicit direct object arguments in Hungarian -- Co-constructing what is said in interaction -- Data-gathering methods in research on hyperbole production and interpretation -- Index