1. Introduction -- 1. Syntactic focus theory and the phenomenon of secondary predication -- 2. Roadmap -- 2. Syntactic representation of secondary predications -- 1. The small clause analysis -- 1.1. The theoretical program -- 1.2. Stowell's dilemma: problems with the ungoverned status of PRO -- 1.3. Alternative small clause proposals -- 1.4. Hoekstra's (1988) generalization of the small clause analysis to resultatives -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. The predication theory analysis -- 2.1. Williams (1980): the theory of predication -- 2.2. Williams' (1983) arguments against small clauses -- 2.3. Conclusion -- 3. Distributional syntax of secondary predications -- 3.1. Rothstein's (1985) elaboration of the predication theory -- 3.2. Culicover & Wilkins (1984, 1986): VP-internal representation of depictives -- 3.3. McNulty (1988): modifications of Rothstein's analysis -- 3.4. Roberts (1988): the subject in VP hypothesis -- 4. Defending a complex predicate analysis -- 4.1. Larson's (1988) complex predicate analysis -- 4.2. Modification of Larson's proposal -- 4.3. Theta-theoretical considerations -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Focus structure in a principle-based theory of grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus as a syntactic feature: a historical development -- 2.1. The syntactic approach -- 2.2. The semantic-pragmatic approach -- 2.3. Focus as new information -- 2.4. The focus structure approach -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. The modularity of intonational models and the theory of focus -- 3.1. Culicover & Rochemont (1983): a modular NSR-based account -- 3.2. Gussenhoven (1983): focus domain formation replacing the NSR -- 3.3. Selkirk (1984): a pitch-accent-first model -- 3.4. Rochemont (1986): an elaborated pitch-accent-first model -- 3.5. The concept of argument structure in Selkirk's and Rochemont's focus theories.

3.6. Excursion: Cinque's (1993) revival of the syntactic approach -- 4. Conclusion -- 4. Focus theory and theta-saturation theory as methods of licensing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The intonational model -- 3. The motivation of the intonational model -- 3.1. WH-questions are not an exception to the DFA -- 3.2. Focus assignment at D-structure -- 3.3. Focus assignment and adjuncts -- 3.4. Licensing, focus, and the argument-adjunct asymmetry in a derivational approach -- 4. A generalization of the focus licensing principles -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The licensing theory of theta-saturation and argument structure -- 4.3. Focus licensing principles revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Pitch extraction analysis of secondary predications: experimental data -- 1. Introduction and experimental design -- 2. Pitch extraction analysis of resultatives and depictives -- 2.1. Transitive AP resultatives -- 2.2. Intransitive resultatives -- 2.3. German Vend resultatives -- 2.4. Object-oriented depictives -- 2.5. German Vend depictives -- 2.6. Focus on the secondary predicate -- 2.7. Conclusions on the production experiment -- 3. Prosodic disambiguation of secondary predications -- 3.1. Prosodic disambiguation of resultatives vs. depictives -- 3.2. Prosodic disambiguation of directional and locative PPs -- 3.3. Perception test -- 4. Evaluation of experiments and summary -- 5. Pitch extraction contours of related finite and noninflectional constructions -- 5.1. Thetic finite constructions -- 5.2. Thetic noninflectional constructions -- 5.3. Categorical finite constructions -- 5.4. Categorical noninflectional constructions -- 5.5. Summary -- 6. Conclusion -- 6. Syntactic licensing and focus projection in secondary predications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic licensing of resultatives -- 2.1. Event structure of resultatives.

2.2. Incorporation of resultative event composition into Higginbotham's phrase structure theory -- 2.3. Particle and three-place predicate constructions -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. Syntactic licensing of depictives -- 3.1. Arguments against the licensing of depictives at D-structure -- 3.2. Subject-predicate and predicate-predicate-linking -- 3.3. Explanation of the differences between RSPs and DSPs -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Focus projection in secondary predications -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Focus projection in RSPs -- 4.3. Focus projection in DSPs -- 4.4. Licensing and the focus-projective behavior of related constructions -- 5. Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Records -- Index.