Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 field 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.