TY  - JOUR
A1  - Simik, Radek
A1  - Wierzba, Marta
T1  - The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study
JF  - Semantics and pragmatics
KW  - givenness
KW  - presupposition
KW  - prosody
KW  - Czech
KW  - scrambling
KW  - acceptability judgments
KW  - experiments
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.8.3
SN  - 1937-8912
VL  - 8
PB  - Linguistic Society of America
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
A1  - Lenertova, Denisa
T1  - Left peripheral focus mismatches between syntax and information structure
JF  - Natural language & linguistic theory
N2  - In Czech, German, and many other languages, part of the semantic focus of the utterance can be moved to the left periphery of the clause. The main generalization is that only the leftmost accented part of the semantic focus can be moved. We propose that movement to the left periphery is generally triggered by an unspecific edge feature of C (Chomsky 2008) and its restrictions can be attributed to requirements of cyclic linearization, modifying the theory of cyclic linearization developed by Fox and Pesetsky (2005). The crucial assumption is that structural accent is a direct consequence of being linearized at merge, thus it is indirectly relevant for (locality restrictions on) movement. The absence of structural accent correlates with givenness. Given elements may later receive (topic or contrastive) accents, which accounts for fronting in multiple focus/contrastive topic constructions. Without any additional assumptions, the model can account for movement of pragmatically unmarked elements to the left periphery ('formal fronting', Frey 2005). Crucially, the analysis makes no reference at all to concepts of information structure in the syntax, in line with the claim of Chomsky (2008) that UG specifies no direct link between syntax and information structure.
KW  - Czech
KW  - German
KW  - Focus
KW  - Topic
KW  - Information structure
KW  - Intervention effects
KW  - Cyclic linearization
KW  - A-bar-movement
KW  - Prosody-syntax interface
KW  - Accentuation
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-010-9109-x
SN  - 0167-806X
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 169
EP  - 209
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -