This paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in
particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

Speakers have competent intuitions in assessing word order alternations as well as in
judging different prosodic patterns. Speakers can find a certain superficial word order tout …

Generalizations about relative prosodic boundary strength are recursive. Initial evidence
comes from the fragment of English consisting only of proper names and and and or. A …

Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in
English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with …

Building on the basis of the papers in this special issue on 'Contrast as an information-
structural notion in grammar'as well as earlier research, this editorial paper decomposes the …

Abstract Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie,(who is) a classical violinist, performed a
piece by Mozart) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible …

During the last decades, research in rhetoric, literary studies and linguistics in Germany
pursued different goals. However, recent interdisciplinary investigations on the topic of …

This paper investigates the intonational phrasing of three types of parenthetical insertions–
non-restrictive relative clauses (NRRCs), full sentences, and comment clauses (CCs)–in …