In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. He presents a model of syntax-information structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase.

1. Introduction 2. Information Structure 3. The Syntax of Dislocations and Focus Fronting 4. The Derivation of Information Structure 5. Moving Objects 6. Dislocation Debates References

Luis Lopez , University of Illinois, Chicago