Table of contents
Preface
VII
Chapter 1.Focus realization in Romance: Core issues and challenges
1
Part I.Prosody and word order
Chapter 2.Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish
33
Chapter 3.Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish
71
Chapter 4.Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking
99
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
131
Chapter 6.Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian
173
Part III.Modality and exclamatives
Chapter 7.Presupposed modality
203
Chapter 8.NP exclamatives and focus
229
Part IV.Cleft constructions
Chapter 9.Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective
255
Chapter 10.Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing?
287
Part V.Focus and language acquisition
Chapter 11.Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives
313
Chapter 12.Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages
357
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