The sound patterns of syntax /

Leading scholars address the issues surrounding the syntax-phonology interface. These principally concern whether the phonological component can influence syntax and if so how far and in what ways.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Erteschik-Shir, Nomi, Rochman, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nomi Ertschik-Shir and Lisa Rochman
  • Adjunction and 3D phrase structure : a study of Norwegian averbials / Tor A. Åfarli
  • The phonology of adverb placement, object shift, and V2 : the case of Danish 'MON' / Nomi Erteschik-Shir
  • Is free postverbal order in Hungarian a syntactic or a PF phenomenon? / Katalin É. Kiss
  • Why float : floating quantifiers and focus marking / Lisa Rochman
  • Prosodic prominence : a syntactic matter? / João Costa
  • On the mechanics of Spell-Out / Steven Franks
  • Semantic and discourse interpretation of the Japanese left periphery / Mamoru Saito
  • Rhythmic patterns cue word order / Mohinish Skulka and Marina Nespor
  • Object clauses, movement, and phrasal stress / Hubert Truckenbrodt and Isabelle Darcy
  • Optimality Theory and the theory of phonological phrasing : the Chimwiini evidence / Charles W. Kisseberth
  • Functional complementarity is only skin-deep : evidence from Egyptian Arabic for the autonomy of syntax and phonology in the expression of focus / Sam Hellmuth
  • Syntax, information structure, embedded prosodic phrasing, and the relational scaling of pitch accents / Caroline Féry
  • Deconstructing the Nuclear Stress Algorithm : evidence from second language speech / Emily Nava and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
  • Focus as grammatical notion : a case study in autism / Kriszta Szendrői
  • Intermodular argumentation : morpheme-specific phonologies are out of business in a phase-based architecture / Tobias Scheer.