| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 213 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 33
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Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 33.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The assertion structure -- Results obtained in chapters 2 and 3: a preview -- The theoretical framework -- The relation between prosody and focus in Germanic and romance -- Nuclear stress versus emphatic/contrastive stress -- The domain of the nuclear stress rule in English (and German) -- The nuclear stress rule revisited -- Romance -- Alternative analyses -- The nature of the focus prosody correspondence principle -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Appendix. Wh phrases, the nuclear stress rule, and the focus prominence rule clausal structure, the position of subjects, and a case of prosodically motivated movement in romance -- The preverbal field in modern standard Spanish -- The preverbal field in Italian: some comparative remarks -- P movement in Spanish -- P movement in Italian: some comparative remarks -- The nature of P movement and where it applies -- Is there P movement in French and in English? -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Appendix. Intonational, syntactic, and interpretive properties of right dislocation in modern standard Spanish. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
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Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) |
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Focus (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa. Prosody, focus, and word order. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998 0262240416 (DLC) 98015459 (OCoLC)38566186 |
| ISBN |
0585370109 (electronic book) |
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9780585370101 (electronic book) |
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