Information Structure and Language Change : : New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic /

Information Structure and Language Change : : New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic / / ed. by Roland Hinterhölzl, Svetlana Petrova.

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The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. Firs...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Axel, Katrin,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Hinterhölzl, Roland,
Hróarsdóttir, Þorbjörg,
Kemenade, Ans,
Krisch, Thomas,
Linde, Sonja,
Lötscher, Andreas,
Lühr, Rosemarie,
Petrova, Svetlana,
Schlachter, Eva,
Solf, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Hinterhölzl, Roland,
Petrova, Svetlana,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 203
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • The role of information structure in the grammar
  • The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield
  • The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change
  • OV languages: Expressions of cues
  • Discourse relations and word order change
  • Methodological problems of the information-structural analysis of data from historical text corpora
  • On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German
  • Paleographic clues to prosody? – Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts
  • On the “syntax of silence” in Proto-Indo-European
  • Information-structural categories in the main texts of the early German inheritance
  • Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor
  • Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian
  • Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg
  • Translating information structure: A study of Notker’s translation of Boethius’s Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German
  • Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon
  • Backmatter

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