Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Ferraresi, Gisella, Lühr, Rosemarie, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.
Series:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.