Prosody in Syntactic Encoding by Gerrit Kentner Joost Kremers

Author:Gerrit Kentner, Joost Kremers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2020-07-06T12:04:51.263000+00:00

This would amount to locating giveness/newness at a high/early level in the grammatical architecture (similar to focus), because Stress-New-XP affects the prosodic structure of sentences.

Can a model along these lines also account for the part of the object fronting data set that is still unaccounted for? Recall that the open issue is that OVSgiven can be as acceptable as an SVO structure, but OVSnew cannot.

Let us consider the predictions a model including Stress-New-XP would make for these structures. The upper tableau in Fig. 4 shows a broad-focus, all-new sentence, whereas the lower tableau shows a broad-focus sentence with a given subject.9

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