The greater the contrast, the greater the potential: On the effects of focus in syntax

The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast the movement of a contrastive constituent to dedicated, left-peripheral position. For Italian and Spanish, it has been claimed focus fronting (FF) must be sanctioned by interpretation focus, while non-contrastive generally occurs postverbally (see, e.g., Rizzi 1997; Zubizarreta 1998; Belletti 2004; López 2009). Only sentences postverbal are thus judged as pragmatically felicitous answers corresponding wh-questions. Some scholars, however, have recently reported different views data, showing preverbal foci indeed accepted native speakers in In this paper, I argue solution problem can found if binary distinction between abandoned, ‘degrees’ or ‘types’ identified, depending on way set alternatives exploited (Krifka 2007; Cruschina 2012). show languages syntactically sensitive specific types which special operations (e.g. FF) associate. Following Bianchi, Bocci & (2015; 2016), then FF fact triggered not per se, but conventional implicature type focus.