Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 255 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789027257871
Series Statement:
Linguistik aktuell volume 275
Content:
Interface phenomena and language change: where we are and where we are going / Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani -- Interface phenomena at the intrasentential level. Information structure and Jespersen's cycle: the dialects of Veneto as a window on processes of language change / Giuseppe Magistro, Claudia Crocco and Anne Breitbarth -- The object position in Old Norwegian: an interplay between syntax, prosody, and information structure / Juliane Tiemann -- Bare quantifiers and Verb Second: the view from Old Italian / Silvia Rossi and Cecilia Poletto -- On the role of information structure in the licensing of null subjects in Old High German: an analysis of null subjects in inti coordinated clauses in the Old High German Diatessaron / Federica Cognola -- Interface phenomena at the intersentential level. Gehen as a new auxiliary in German / Katharina Paul, Maik Thalmann, Markus Steinbach and Marco Coniglio -- Discourse-driven asymmetries between embedded interrogatives and relative clauses in West Germanic / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Discourse relations and the German prefield / Augustin Speyer -- Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses / Sophia Voigtmann.
Content:
"This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse - with a special focus on Germanic and Romance - and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic development of long-burning issues such as negation, word order, quantifiers, null subjects, aspectuality, the structure of the left periphery, and extraposition. The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains. The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027210975
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (41. : 2019 : Bremen) Language change at the interfaces Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022 ISBN 9789027210975
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Linguistik
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Syntax
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Prosodie
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Informationsstruktur
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Linguistik
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Syntax
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Prosodie
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Informationsstruktur
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Konferenzschrift
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