The Sound Patterns of Syntax

Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Professor and Chair in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University. She is the author of Information Structure (OUP, 2007) and co-editor with Tova Rapoport of The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Information (OUP, 2005).Lisa Rochman is completing work at Ben Gurion University on the role of focus structure and phonology in floating quantifiers for her PhD dissertation.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Adjunction and 3D Phrase Structure: a Study of Norwegian Adverbials ; 3. The Phonology of Adverb Placement, Object Shift, and V-2; The Case of Danish 'MON' ; 4. Is Free Postverbal Order in Hungarian a Syntactic or a PF Phenomenon? ; 5. Why Float: Floating Quantifiers and Focus Marking ; 6. Prosodic Prominence: A Syntactic Matter? ; 7. On the Mechanics of Spell-Out ; 8. Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery ; 9. Rhythmic Patterns Cue Word Order ; 10. Object Clauses and Phrasal Stress ; 11. Optimality Theory and the Theory of phonological Phrasing: The Chimwiini Evidence ; 12. Functional Complementarity is Only Skin Deep: Evidence From Etyptian Arabic for the Autonomy fo Syntax and Phonology in the Expression of Focus ; 13. Syntax, Information Structure, Embedded Prosodic Phrasing, and the Relational Scaling of Pitch Accents ; 14. Deconstructing the Nuclear Stress Algorithm: Evidence From Second Language Speech ; 15. Focus as a Grammatical Notion: A Case Study in Autism ; 16. Intermodular Argumentation: Morpheme-specific Phonologies are out of Business in a Phase-based Architecture