Focus, p-movement, and the nuclear-stress rule: a view from Germanic and Romance *.(Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Prosody, Focus, and Word Order)(Book Review) From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Winkler, Susanne; Gobbel, Edward | COPYRIGHT 2002 Walter de Gruyter und Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Prosody, Focus, and Word Order. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.213 pp. ISBN 0-262-74021-4.

1. Introduction

Over the past three decades, many controversial proposals have been forwarded in the search for an empirically and theoretically adequate account of the focus-prosody relation. While the fundamental questions--what is the relation between focus and intonation, and which principles determine its in...