Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond.

Intro -- Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Core issues of focus realization in Romance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Focus categories -- 4. Diatopic variation -- 5. Outline of the volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Prosody and word order -- Chapter 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Results -- 4. A preliminary perception experiment -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 3. Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data base and methodology -- 3. Contrastive focalization in Yucatecan Spanish compared to standard Mexican Spanish -- 4. Syntax-prosody interface -- 5. Language contact -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of focus and three syntactic positions -- 3. Data -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Description of acceptability judgment experiment conducted by the author -- Part II. Prosody, focus, and related pragmatic functions -- Chapter 5. Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hypotheses -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Pitch accent distribution for BF and NF in CMS -- 5. Interaction between foci and other pragmatic and discursive values in prosodic use -- 6. Sociolinguistic correlates of focus pitch accents -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix.

Chapter 6. Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian -- 1. Topic, focus and contrast in Italian sentences -- 2. Focus and contrast: Two notions or the same notion? -- 3. The prosody of focus and contrast in some Italian varieties -- 4. The Experiment: Focus and contrast in Rionero Italian -- 5. General discussion and conclusions: A different prosodic representation of contrast and focus -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. List of sentence types used in the experiment -- Part III. Modality and exclamatives -- Chapter 7. Presupposed modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Expressions of surprise and obviousness in the linguistic literature -- 3. Presupposed modality -- 4. Conclusions and perspectives -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. NP exclamatives and focus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structure of NP exclamatives -- 3. NP exclamatives, clefts, and focus-fronting constructions -- 4. Exclamative NPs and focus -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part IV. Cleft constructions -- Chapter 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining (cleftable) adverbials -- 3. Adverbials in Italian, French and English clefts: Corpus findings -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language contact in medieval Britain -- 3. Clefts in French and English -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part V. Focus and language acquisition -- Chapter 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The acquisitional task for children learning French and German: Background and research questions.

3. The development of additive and contrastive discourse relations: Methods -- 4. The development of additive and contrastive discourse relations: Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus and focus-induced word order variation -- 3. Empirical study -- 4. Representing interlanguage grammars -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.

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