1. Introduction: core issues of focus realization in Romance / Melanie Uth and Marco Garcia Garcia -- 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish / Maria del Mar Vanrell and Olga Fernandez-Soriano -- 3. Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish / Melanie Uth -- 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking / Steffen Heidinger -- 5. Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish / Pedro Martin Butragueno and Erika Mendoza -- 6. Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian / Jacopo Torregrossa -- 7. Presupposed modality / Uli Reich -- 8. NP exclamatives and focus / Marco Garcia Garcia -- 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective / Anna-Maria De Cesare and Davide Garassino -- 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? / Carola Trips and Achim Stein -- 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives / Christine Dimroth and Sandra Benazzo -- 12. Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages / Christoph Gabriel and Jonas Grunke -- Index.