The Syntax-Prosody Interface -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The cartographic approach and the left periphery of the clause in Italian -- 1.1 The cartographic approach -- 1.2 Background: The fine structure of the left periphery in Italian -- 1.2.1 Some properties opposing topic and focus in the left periphery in Italian -- 1.3 The criterial model -- 2. The right periphery of the clause -- 2.1 Postverbal focus -- 2.2 (Clitic) Right Dislocation -- 2.2.1 (Clitic) Right Dislocation is not a device to assign focus -- 2.2.2 Right-Dislocated Topics are clause-internal topics -- 3. Crosslinguistic variation: Uniqueness versus multiplicity of focus -- 3.1 Alternative semantics and focus in Italian -- 3.1.1 Alternative semantics for focus -- 3.1.2 Farmer's sentences -- 3.2 Issues on uniqueness of focus -- 3.2.1 Focus-sensitive operators and uniqueness of focus -- 3.2.2 Focus uniqueness, focus coordination -- 3.2.3 Some speculations on uniqueness of focus and crosslinguistic variation -- 4. Focus on subjects in preverbal position -- 4.1 Two hypotheses -- 4.2 Contrastive focalization in Rural Florentine -- 4.3 Ne-cliticization test -- 4.4 Focused preverbal subjects and Weak Crossover -- 4.5 Focused subjects, Principle C, and reconstruction -- 4.6 Discussion and conclusion -- 5. Focus on Topics: The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics -- 5.1 The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics -- 5.2 Contexts for Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation -- 5.3 Contrastive Focus Left Dislocation is not contrastive topicalization -- 5.4 Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation as Clitic Left Dislocated Topics prosodically focused in -- 5.5 Focus, Topic, and Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation in reduced left peripheries.

5.6 Analysis of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation: Head movement from Top0 to Foc0 -- 5.7 Postfocal Clitic Left Dislocated Topics, definiteness, and CFLD -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6. From syntax to prosody -- 6.1 Introduction to prosody -- 6.2 Mapping rules -- 6.2.1 Two sets of rules -- 6.2.2 Default mapping rules -- 6.2.3 Feature-sensitive mapping rules -- 6.2.4 A note on the notion of nuclear pitch accent -- 6.3 Experimental procedures and corpora -- 6.3.1 Experiment A -- 6.3.2 Experiment B -- 6.4 Pitch accents and types of focus -- 6.4.1 L+H* on Contrastive Focus -- 6.4.2 H+L* on broad and narrow informational focus -- 6.4.3 Theoretical implications -- 6.4.4 The last pitch accent of the focus constituent and the projection of focus -- 6.5 The Focus Defining Rule and the role of L* in Tuscan Italian -- 6.5.1 The pitch contour on postfocal material -- 6.5.2 L*-association is ruled by the linear position of focus -- 6.6 Focus and phrasing -- 6.7 Focus, main prominence, and main wh-questions in Italian -- 6.8 On the phonetic reality of postfocal phrasal heads -- 6.9 On the (non-)isomorphism between the prosodic representation and the syntactic and information s -- 6.10 Summary -- References -- Index.