UID:
edocfu_9958353715902883
Format:
1 online resource (400p.)
ISBN:
9783110216110
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 203
Content:
The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely, word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally marked and unmarked forms within one grammar.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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The role of information structure in the grammar --
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The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield --
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The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change --
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OV languages: Expressions of cues --
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Discourse relations and word order change --
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Methodological problems of the information-structural analysis of data from historical text corpora --
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On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German --
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Paleographic clues to prosody? – Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts --
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On the “syntax of silence” in Proto-Indo-European --
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Information-structural categories in the main texts of the early German inheritance --
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Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor --
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Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian --
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Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg --
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Translating information structure: A study of Notker’s translation of Boethius’s Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German --
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Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-020591-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110216110
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216110
