ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of several common English constructions, all of which claim result from the application of stylistic rules on syntactic surface structures. Gueron gives two tests for determining the FOCUS of a particular sentence. She claims first of all that the FOCUS is the element under negation in sentences. The second test of FOCUS which Gueron considers is that only the FOCUS of a sentence can be bound by such particles as 'only'. It is, however, evident upon closer investigation that stylistic rules cannot be shown to affect the binding of variables such as 't' given a theory in which such binding is structurally determined. Since stylistic rules do not interact with transformations, the prime test of structural configurations is not available here. The condition appears less ad hoc in light of the consideration that it is a salient feature of this model of grammar that stylistic rules must be meaning preserving.
