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Information structure and language change : new approaches to word order variation in Germanic /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
203. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Roland Hinterhölzl and Svetlana Petrova
- The role of information structure in the grammar
- The verb-second property in Old High German : different ways of filling the prefield / Katrin Axel
- The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change / Roland Hinterhölzl
- OV languages: expressions of vues / Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
- Discourse relations and word order change / Ans van Kemenade
- 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 / Svetlana Petrova and Michael Solf
- Paleographic clues to prosody? : accents, word separation, and related phenomena in Old High German manuscripts / Jürg Fleischer
- On the "syntax of silence" in Proto-Indo-European / Thomas Krisch
- Information-structural categories in the main texts of early German inheritance
- Word order variation and information structure in Old High German : an analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor / Eva Schlachter
- Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian / Svetlana Petrova
- Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg / Andreas Lötscher
- Translating information structure : a study of Notker's translation of Boethius's Latin De consolatione philosophiae into Old High German / Rosemarie Lühr
- Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon / Sonja Linde
- Subject index.