In:Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth
[Studies in Language Companion Series 201] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 28 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.201.toc
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Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Chapter 1.Focus realization in Romance: Core issues and challenges1
Melanie Uth
Marco García García
Part I.Prosody and word order
Chapter 2.Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish33
Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch
Olga Fernández Soriano
Chapter 3.Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish71
Melanie Uth
Chapter 4.Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking99
Steffen Heidinger
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 Spanish131
Pedro Martín Butragueño
Érika Mendoza
Chapter 6.Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian173
Jacopo Torregrossa
Part III.Modality and exclamatives
Chapter 7.Presupposed modality203
Uli Reich
Chapter 8.NP exclamatives and focus229
Marco García García
Part IV.Cleft constructions
Chapter 9.Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective255
Anna-Maria De Cesare
Davide Garassino
Chapter 10.Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing?287
Carola Trips
Achim Stein
Part V.Focus and language acquisition
Chapter 11.Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives313
Christine Dimroth
Sandra Benazzo
Chapter 12.Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages357
Christoph Gabriel
Jonas Grünke
