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I review evidence for the claim that syntactic ambiguities
are resolved on the basis of the meaning of the competing
analyses, not their structure. I identify a collection of
ambiguities that d o not yet have a meaning-based account
and propose one which is based on the interaction of
discourse and grammatical function. I provide evidence
for m y proposal by examining statistical properties of the
Penn Treebank of syntactically annotated text.
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