Arsalan Kahnemuyipour is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University. This book is a revised version of his 2004 University of Toronto PhD dissertation. His published work includes articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

• 1: Setting the Stage


• 2: Sentential Stress: Phonological Accounts


• 3: Sentential Stress: Syntactic Accounts


• 4: Sentential Stress: A Phase-Based Account


• 5: Sentential Stress and Information Structure


• 6: Conclusions and Implications


• References


• Index

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations.