The appearances and some background -- Introduction : the appearances, and what they might mean -- Further background issues -- The genuineness issue -- Not a full-fledged speech act? -- Extra-grammatical maneuvers -- Semantic ellipsis -- Syntactic ellipsis -- A divide-and-conquer strategy -- A positive representational-pragmatic view -- Implications -- Language : thought relations -- Sentence primacy -- Sentences, assertion, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary

1. Language and languages -- Philosophy
2. Speech acts (Linguistics)
3. Grammar
4. Comparative and general -- Ellipsis