Diachronic Studies on Information Structure: Language Acquisition and Change

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Diachronic Studies on Information Structure

Language Acquisition and Change

Edited by: Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Lühr

Volume 10 in the series Language, Context and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227475

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About this book

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.
Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement.

Editorial board

Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School)

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes)

Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig)

Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig)

Author / Editor information

Gisella Ferraresi, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Rosemarie Lühr, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.

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The Role of Information Structure in Language Change: Introductory Remarks Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Lühr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Casein Warihío Rolando Féliz Armendáriz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic Carlotta Viti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish Christoph Gabriel and Esther Rinke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development Marit Westergaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat Dejan Matić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese Kristine Gunn Eide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
The Development of V-to-C-Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages Melanie Wratil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German Svetlana Petrova and Roland Hinterhölzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler, Institute, Bibliotheken
Pages
- Main content: 217
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- Other: Zahlr. Abb. und Tab.
Keywords: Information Structure; Language Change

eBook

Published: August 31, 2010
ISBN: 9783110227475

Hardcover

Published: August 17, 2010
ISBN: 9783110227468