Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Markedness in context: An approach to licensing 1
4. The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence 17
5. Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German 57
6. Focus and prosody in nominal copular clauses 71
7. Focus constraints on relative clause antecedents in sluicing 105
8. Markers of discourse status in descriptions of altered spatial layouts 129
9. On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization 153
10. How to get from graded intuitions to binary decisions 183
11. Scrambled Wackernagel! Neural responses to noncanonical pronoun serializations in German 209
12. Logical and pragmatic meaning in the interpretation of disjunction: Contextual relevance and scalar implicatures 251
13. The processing of argument structure: A comparison between patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and healthy controls 279
14. Standard items for English judgment studies: Syntax and semantics 305
15. Index 329