Locative Inversion and Right Focus Movement

The movement pattern referred here to as Right Focus Movement manifests the placement of sentence categories to the right for their standard position, provided that they get focus marking: it is meant that these sentence categories would not move outside their positions unless there were focal. The target position of Right Focus is the position to the right for VP or vP: it may be both clause-final or clause-internal, but it is essential that it is located to the right for the position of the verbal head (finite verb, Vº) and is adjacent to the right edge of vP. The source positions of the moved focal elements are vP-internal or VP-internal: for the sake of simplicity we assume here that they are located to the left of verbal heads, though their exact location is not relevant for the following analysis. [vP [ …t i ..] [VP [Vº]…. ] [Focus Phrase ______ x i ] [vP [VP [….t i …] [Vº]…. ] [Focus Phrase ______ x i ].  Right Focus movement is specific for maximal projections containing an element which is Focus Proper: the Focus Proper moves together with its maximal projection.