Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

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 …

In this article, I discuss the interaction of locality phenomena with the left periphery in Italian
as elaborated in,,. It turns out that long-distance crossing possibilities fully predict the local …

This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing
that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syntactic expression of …

Adopting Vallduví's partition of the background into link and tail, I provide an account for
Italian data. Being links pre-focal expressions, and tails post-focal, right dislocated …

It is most often claimed that in Spanish constituents in narrow presentational or information
focus appear rightmost, where they also receive main sentence stress, while shifting the …

This chapter addresses the expression of information structure in Romance languages,
based on data from mainly Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish …

Dislocation is a kind of construction in which a phrasal constituent (the dislocate) appears at
the outer left or right edge of a gap‐less clause (its host) that contains a pronominal correlate …

The paper argues for a bisentential, paratactic account of Hanging Topic Left Dislocations
wherein the syntactically unconnected hanging topic phrase is the remnant of an elliptical …

Contrastive topics and non-contrastive topics in Japanese generally receive separate
treatments in the literature: although they are both marked by the particle wa, the former …