This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

We claim that fronting triggers association of focus with sentence polarity, ie,'verum focus'. In
these constructions, which we label Verum Focus Fronting (VFF), there is no informational …

The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as 'information
structure'can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to …

Spanish allows for a fairly unrestricted ordering of constituents in simple and embedded
declaratives. Thus, a transitive verb like comprar 'to buy,'realizing all its arguments, an …

We provide an analysis of focus and exhaustive focus in the Grassfields Bantu language
Awing. We show that Awing provides an exceptionally clear window into the syntactic …

This paper aims at explaining why irony is particularly salient in a certain kind of Spanish
sentences that involve fronting of a constituent. This fact should be totally unexpected if one …

Focus movement to a left-peripheral position has been posited for both Hungarian and
Italian. In this paper I argue against a unified cartographic treatment of focus movement …

This work presents a heuristic mathematical approach to modeling and quantifying
constraint violations. The empirical phenomenon consists of different word orders with …

This paper analyzes the SOV order in Russian. Various hypotheses concerning its
distribution have been proposed in previous functional and formal studies, but none of them …

Coordination and subordination has been a long-standing problem in syntactic typology. 1
While traditional grammar views it as a binary opposition, there are lots of typological data …