Parallel Focus is involved in such construction as: (32) ‘John’ bought ‘a book’, and ‘Mary’ bought ‘a magazine’ In such constructions there are typically two or more pairs of constituents such as (John, a book) and (Mary, a magazine), which are contrasted to each other. For this type of contrast it is immaterial whether the constituents involved present new or given information. Parallel Focus constructions typically have a rather pronounced prosodic pattern in which all the constituents from the relevant pairs get rather strong accent: (33) /¯‘JOHN’ bought ‘a’ /¯‘BOOK’, and /¯‘MARy’ bought ‘a’ /¯‘Magazine’ […].
- Dik (1989), a pag.394