By Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
This monograph exemplifies a brand new pattern in grammatical conception within which researchers mix findings from a couple of zone of linguistics. particularly, the writer seems on the dating among phrasal prominence and concentration in Romance and Germanic languages to supply new insights into how those houses are grammatically articulated. construction upon earlier ends up in the sphere, she argues that phrasal prominence (nuclear rigidity) displays syntactic ordering. There are forms of syntactic ordering. the 1st is the normal uneven c-command ordering. the second one is the ordering derived from the primitive relation of choice protecting among a head and its linked argument. a part of the variation among Germanic and Romance languages stems from a distinction within the manner the 2 syntactic orderings have interaction within the mapping onto phrasal prominence. the writer exhibits that the symmetry among syntactic ordering and phrasal prominence so outlined could be damaged as a result self sufficient requirement concentrated constituent needs to include the main trendy point within the sentence. varieties of tactics come into play to fix the damaged symmetry. One is a technique of deaccenting. the opposite is a means of stream, referred to as "p-movement." the writer exhibits right figuring out of the houses of p-movement might be attained in the framework of the Minimalist software.
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Marie a mis le livre sur Ia table. ] b. Mary put the book on the table. ] The contrast between the French examples in (47b) (which shows the incompatibility of phrase-internal NS with a wide focus interpretation) and (50)/(55a) ( phrase-internal NS with narrow focus on the subject and on the object, respectively) is very revealing. It shows that the ill-formedness of ( 46b) in Spanish and of ( 47b) in French indeed cannot be accounted for by an intonational constraint that requires that the nuclear pitch ac cent in Romance be right-adjacent to the intonational phrase boundary (as suggested in Zubizarreta 1 995b, 1 996).
The contrast in (35) suggests that anaphoric phrases are also metrically invisible for the NSR in English. ( The same observation holds for German. ) ( 3 7 ) Anaphoric phrases are metrically invisible for the NSR i n English and German. It is tempting to treat certain examples analyzed by Ladd ( 1980) in terms of the notion of "default accent" as a subcase of anaphora (see Williams 1 997 for a proposal along these lines). We can then account for such cases in terms of (37). Close examination of the examples cited by Ladd as cases of default accent reveals that they do not constitute a unitary phenomenon.
Comi6 una manzana Juan. Juan ate an apple b. Ha mangiato una mela Gianni. ( 58) a. Maria puso sobre la mesa el libro. Maria put on the table the book b. Maria ha messo sul tavolo il libro. P-movement is subject to the condition known as Last Resort, like other movement rule (on Last Resort, see section 1 . 2). Given that p-movement feeds the NSR, p-movement must also apply prior to Spell-Out, a conclu sion that is shown to be empirically correct. e. , just before the derivation branches); see section 1 .