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The marketing agent imagined the buyer to be/was satisfied with their new product. 39. The sales staff imagined their manager to be/was excited about her promotion. 40. The social worker imagined Jack's father to be/was a supportive parent to his son. 41. Nancy's friend imagined her brother to be/was a stand-up comedian at the local club. 42. Fiona's daughter imagined her coworker to be/was a keen advocate of animal rights. 43. The student's mother knew her son to be/was polite to his teachers. 44. The city planner knew the mayor to be/was supportive of the new development. 45. The worried parents knew the coach to be/was understanding about the oversight. 46. The drama teacher knew her brother to be/was the stage director for their first performance. 47. The choir leader knew his soprano to be/was the lead singer in the jazz festival. 48. The music director knew his wife to be/was the main fundraiser for their orchestra. 49. The journalism professor understood his students to be/were passionate about their work. 50. The chief architect understood his team to be/was modest about their win. 51. The nursing staff understood the teenagers to be/were responsible for their health.

Case, scope, and binding is an investigation of the relation between the sstructure level of syntactic representation and semantic interpretation, with particular focus on the syntax and semantics of the Inuit language. Bittner's proposal is that s-structure is the default LF, thus determining all the scope options up to and including the default scope, which for any operator is its s-structure sister. In support of her claim Bittner sets out on an ambitious task that encompasses several domains: she presents a universal theory of syntax, proposes a theory of cross-linguistic semantics, and provides an indepth syntactic and semantic analysis of a particular language, West Greenlandic Inuit (Eskimo-Aleut).Chapter 1 begins with an examination of the different scope options available in three languages -English, Hindi and Inuit -and the proposal that this cross-linguistic variation in scopal relations reflects the corresponding variation at s-structure. S-structure is a key component in Bittner's theory, as she assumes that this abstract level of syntactic representation determines structural Case assignment, agreement and syntactic binding relations as well as minimum scopes. In the first part of chapter i Bittner presents a theory of Case and agreement that derives and constrains s-structure representations.