Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Professor and Chair in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University. She is the author of Information Structure (OUP, 2007) and co-editor with Tova Rapoport of The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Information (OUP, 2005).
Lisa Rochman is completing work at Ben Gurion University on the role of focus structure and phonology in floating quantifiers for her PhD dissertation.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Tor Åfarli: Adjunction and 3D Phrase Structure: a Study of Norwegian Adverbials


• 3: Nomi Erteschik-Shir: The Phonology of Adverb Placement, Object Shift, and V-2; The Case of Danish 'MON'


• 4: Katalin E. Kiss: Is Free Postverbal Order in Hungarian a Syntactic or a PF Phenomenon?


• 5: Lisa Rochman: Why Float: Floating Quantifiers and Focus Marking


• 6: João Costa: Prosodic Prominence: A Syntactic Matter?


• 7: Steven Franks: On the Mechanics of Spell-Out


• 8: Mamoru Saito: Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery


• 9: Mohinish Shukla and Marina Nespor: Rhythmic Patterns Cue Word Order


• 10: Hubert Truckenbrodt and Isabelle Darcy: Object Clauses and Phrasal Stress


• 11: Charles W. Kisseberth: Optimality Theory and the Theory of phonological Phrasing: The Chimwiini Evidence


• 12: Sam Hellmuth: Functional Complementarity is Only Skin Deep: Evidence From Etyptian Arabic for the Autonomy fo Syntax and Phonology in the Expression of Focus


• 13: Caroline Féry: Syntax, Information Structure, Embedded Prosodic Phrasing, and the Relational Scaling of Pitch Accents


• 14: Emily Nava and maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Deconstructing the Nuclear Stress Algorithm: Evidence From Second Language Speech


• 15: Kriszta Szendroi: Focus as a Grammatical Notion: A Case Study in Autism


• 16: Tobias Scheer: Intermodular Argumentation: Morpheme-specific Phonologies are out of Business in a Phase-based Architecture

In this book leading scholars address the issues surrounding the syntax-phonology interface. These principally concern whether the phonological component can influence syntax and if so how far and in what ways.