Information structure and language change new approaches to word order variation in Germanic / edited by Roland Hinterhölzl, Svetlana Petrova.

Other author Hinterhölzl, Roland.
Other author Petrova, Svetlana, 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
Descriptionvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 203
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 203. ^A512512
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.
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ISBN9783110205916 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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