General preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Sentential stress: phonological accounts -- 3. Sentential stress: syntactic accounts -- 4. Sentential stress: a phase-based account -- 5. Sentential stress and information structure -- 6. Conclusions and implications -- References -- Index
Summary
This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations