The Sound Patterns of Syntax [Hardcover]

In this book leading scholars address the issues surrounding the syntax-phonology interface. These principally concern whether the phonological component can influence syntax and if so how far and in what ways: such questions are a prominent component of current work on the biolinguistics of speech production and reception. The problematic relationship between syntax and phonology has long piqued the interest of syntacticians and phonologists: the connections between sound and structure have played a key role in generative grammar from its inception, initially relating to focus and the prosodic marking of constituent structure and more recently to word-order constraints. This book advances this work in a series of critical and interlinked presentations of the latest thinking and research. In doing so it draws on data from a wide range of languages, evidence from disordered language, and related work in language acquisition.

1. Introduction
2. Adjunction and 3D Phrase Structure: a Study of Norwegian Adverbials,Tor Afarli
3. The Phonology of Adverb Placement, Object Shift, and V-2; The Case of Danish 'MON',Nomi Erteschik-Shir
4. Is Free Postverbal Order in Hungarian a Syntactic or a PF Phenomenon?,Katalin E. Kiss
5. Why Float: Floating Quantifiers and Focus Marking,Lisa Rochman
6. Prosodic Prominence: A Syntactic Matter?,Joao Costa
7. On the Mechanics of Spell-Out,Steven Franks
8. Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery,Mamoru Saito
9. Rhythmic Patterns Cue Word Order,Mohinish Shukla and Marina Nespor
10. Object Clauses and Phrasal Stress,Hubert Truckenbrodt and Isabelle Darcy
11. Optimality Theory and the Theory of phonological Phrasing: The Chimwiini Evidence,Charles W. Kisseberth
12. Functional Complementarity is Only Skin Deep: Evidence From Etyptian Arabic for the Autonomy fo Syntax and Phonology in the Explƒ¼