To move or not to move: is focus on the edge?

HIGHLIGHTS

• What: Following are examples of preposed IF, CF, and MF in Spanish, from the experiments: Most frequently, when native speakers are informally asked, English sentences in which a focused constituent is preposed are considered ungrammatical: Guess what. *TWO PACKS OF CIGARETTES Loui smoked in the waiting room! 2. The figures obtained for MF are lower in English, but as I show in the statistical analysis, fronting always is statistically significant as far as the contrast between the two languages is concerned. I show the possible analysis for in situ MF (also valid for CF and IF) in . . .
  

   

  

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