Prosody Focus And Word Order

Download or read book Prosody, Focus, and Word Order written by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph exemplifies a trend in grammatical theory in which researchers combine findings from more than one area of linguistics. Specifically, the author looks at the relationship between phrasal prominence and focus in Romance and Germanic languages to provide insights into how these properties are grammatically articulated. Building upon prominence (nuclear stress) reflects syntactic ordering. There are two varieties of syntatic ordering. The first is the standard asymmetric c-command ordering. The second is the ordering derived from the primitive relation of selection holding between a head and its associated argument.