“…In situ focus is not the result of a merging operation, hence association with focus is possible only through abstract agreement with a feature of noncontrastive focus that may be projected in a higher node of the Georgian VP. (b) Alternatively, we may assume that constituent structure does not directly bear information-structural features (following previous suggestions by Hartmann and Zimmermann, 2006;Fanselow, 2008;Zimmermann, 2007;Wedgwood, 2003). In this view, the preference for a particular constituent structure in certain contexts results from its linear and accentual properties and independent information-structural principles that prime the selection of these properties in a given discourse situation.…”