Bøger af Maria Luisa (University of Southern California) Zubizarreta

An argument for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion in human languages; with a wealth of empirical evidence from Germanic, Korean, and Romance languages.

Exemplifies a trend in grammatical theory which combines findings from more than one area of linguistics. The author looks at the relationship between phrasal prominence and focus in Romance and Germanic languages to provide insights into how these properties are grammatically articulated.