Prosody, Focus, and Word Order

Introduction - the assertion structure, results obtained in chapters 2 and 3 - a preview, the theoretical framework the relation between prosody and focus in Germanic and Romance - nuclear stress versus emphatic/contrastive stress the domain of the nuclear stress rule in English (and German), the nuclear stress rule revisited, Romance, alternative analyses, the nature of the focus prosody correspondence principle, summary and concluding remarks, appendix - Wh-phrases, the nuclear stress rule, and the focus prominence rule clausal structure, the position of subjects, and a case of prosodically motivated movement in Romance - the preverbal filed in modern standard Spanish, the preverbal field in Italian - some comparative remarks, P-movement in Spanish, P-movement in Italian - some comparative remarks, the nature of P-movement and where it applies, is there P-movement in French and in English? summary and concluding remarks. Appendix: intonational, syntactic, and interpretive properties of right-dislocation in modern standard Spanish.