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Diachronic studies on information structure : language acquisition and change /

This volume is a collection of papers on the role informational categories like topic and focus can play in language change phenomena. The novelty of the papers contained in this volume consists in the analyses offered by the authors from a modern theoretical perspective. A further point of interest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ferraresi, Gisella, Lühr, Rosemarie, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.
Colección:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The role of information structure in language change: introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr
  • Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz
  • The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti
  • Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke
  • Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development / Marit Westergaard
  • Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati
  • Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide
  • The Development of V-to-C Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages / Melanie Wratil
  • Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterhölzl.