Prosody, Focus, and Word Order Book

	Series Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
1.1	The Assertion Structure	1
1.2	Results Obtained in Chapters 2 and 3: A Preview	16
1.3	The Theoretical Framework	23
Ch. 2	The Relation between Prosody and Focus in Germanic and Romance	37
2.1	Nuclear Stress versus Emphatic/Contrastive Stress	38
2.2	The Domain of the Nuclear Stress Rule in English (and German)	46
2.3	The Nuclear Stress Rule Revisited	49
2.4	Romance	73
2.5	Alternative Analyses	78
2.6	The Nature of the Focus Prosody Correspondence Principle	88
2.7	Summary and Concluding Remarks	90
Appendix	Wh-Phrases, the Nuclear Stress Rule, and the Focus Prominence Rule	92
Ch. 3	Clausal Structure, the Position of Subjects, and a Case of Prosodically Motivated Movement in Romance	99
3.1	The Preverbal Field in Modern Standard Spanish	99
3.2	The Preverbal Field in Italian: Some Comparative Remarks	118
3.3	P-Movement in Spanish	123
3.4	P-Movement in Italian: Some Comparative Remarks	135
3.5	The Nature of P-Movement and Where It Applies	138
3.6	Is There P-Movement in French and in English?	146
3.7	Summary and Concluding Remarks	150
Appendix	Intonational, Syntactic, and Interpretive Properties of Right-Dislocation in Modern Standard Spanish	151
	Notes	159
	Bibliography	199
	Index	211