Information structure and language change new approaches to word order variation in Germanic /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hinterhölzl, Roland, Petrova, Svetlana, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 203.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.