The paper argues that the German prefield can be filled in three different ways: (i) by “Formal Movement”, which takes the highest constituent of the middle field, preserving whatever pragmatic property the constituent has “acquired” in the middle field, (ii) by base-generation of certain adverbials that are not licensed clause internally, (iii) by A -movement, which goes together with a contrastive interpretation of the moved item. In view of option (iii), German can be seen to provide support for the claim that contrast has to be considered as an autonomous concept of information structure.
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