ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the various possibilities of realizing an I-marker, and the general principles of the operation of realization rules. A plausible assumption about the production process is that there are alternative routes from a given I-marker to one and the same utterance. I-markers are not static structures but must be assumed to be subject to change in the course of production. When there are several words belonging to different grammatical categories listed under the same protoverbal element, it may happen that lexicalization which is performed before application of relation rules chooses a word of an incorrect grammatical category. This may lead to a revision in the course of the production process before the word is uttered. Intonation contour is partly determined by the relational structure of the realizate; protoverbal elements themselves are neither stressed nor unstressed and hence cannot carry stress with them when they are exchanged.
