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The Syntax of Sentential Stress (Hardcover, New)
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
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This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is
assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its
central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear
stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is
determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in
this respect follow from syntactic variations. Presented in a
Chomskian multiple spell-out framework, the author develops the
Sentential Stress Rule and provides a systematic way of accounting
for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from
Persian, English, German and Eastern Armenian. The author further
proposes the Focus Stress Rule to handle the interaction between
sentential structure and information structure. Sentential stress
is thus determined through an interplay between two components, the
default Sentential Stress Rule and the Focus Stress Rule. Syntactic
phenomena are not, the author argues, triggered by phonology or
prosodic motivations: the relationship between syntax and phonology
is always from syntax to phonology.
This important contribution to understanding processes at the
syntax-phonology interface will interest syntacticians and
phonologists at graduate level and above.
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