The Syntax of Sentential Stress
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress

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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 asystematic way of accounting for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from Persian, English, German ...