Preface -- The notion of emphasis -- Introduction -- The notion of emphasis -- The syntactic approach to emphasis -- Emphasis for contrast and information structure -- The notion of emphasis for intensity -- Emphatic focus and marked word order -- Emphatic focus in a cross-linguistic perspective -- The mirative use : experimental evidence -- The reprimand use and the notion of emphasis for intensity -- Outline of the proposal -- Empirical domains of emphasis -- Particle topicalization and emphasis for intensity -- Particle verbs : topicalization and semantic transparency -- Semantic transparency : a new classification -- An acceptability study on particle topicalization -- Expressive conditions on particle topicalization -- The class of expressive particle verbs -- An acceptability study on expressive particle verbs -- The representation of different particle verb classes -- Emphasis for intensity across clause types -- Emphasis for intensity and clause types -- Emphasis for intensity and exclamatives -- Emphasis for intensity and special questions -- Emphasis for intensity and [wh+Prt]-questions -- Left peripheral discourse particles and adverbs -- Deriving the constituency of [wh+Prt]-constructions -- The syntactic representation of emphatic [wh+Prt]-questions -- The phonetics of emphasis for intensity in [wh+Prt]-questions : a production study -- A unified account of emphasis -- Emphasis and German clause structure -- The German left periphery : emphasis for contrast -- A unified account of left peripheral emphasis -- 'Remnant' issues -- Conclusion : from information structure to the expressive dimension -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Index
