Rhematic focus at the left periphery

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Arbitrary pronouns are not that indefinite 1
5. Wh-questions and Wh-exclamatives 15
6. Impersonal constructions, control and second-order predication 41
7. Complementizer Deletion in Florentine 57
8. Rhematic focus at the left periphery 77
9. Multiple focus in European Portuguese 93
10. External subjects in two varieties of Portuguese 109
11. Extreme Non-Specificity in Romanian 127
12. Resultatives 153
13. Topic, focus and secondary predication 171
14. Intonative structure of focalization in French and Greek 213
15. Splitting up subject clitic-verb inversion 233
16. Edging Quantifiers 253
17. Partitive constructions and antisymmetry 271
18. Stress-Focus correspondence in Italian 287
19. Definite and Bare Kind-denoting Noun Phrases 305
20. Index of languages and dialects 345
21. Subject Index 347