Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

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.…”
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