Broad focus across sentence types in greek
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In Greek main sentence stress is located on the rightmost constituent in ‘all new’ declaratives, but for all-new negatives, polar questions, and wh-questions it is located on the negative particle, main verb, and whword respectively. I discuss the implications of this pattern for the focus projection rules and for the accentedness of discourse new constituents.
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