Information structure and language change
Subtitle: new approaches to word order variation in Germanic
By: edited by Roland Hinterhölzl, Svetlana Petrova.
Contributors: Hinterhölzl, Roland.; Petrova, Svetlana.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 203
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110205916
Subjects: Germanic languages -- Word order; Germanic languages -- Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roland Hinterhölzl and Svetlana Petrova; title: The role of information structure in the grammar: The verb-second property in Old High German: different ways of filling the prefield / Katrin Axel; title: The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change / Roland Hinterhölzl; title: OV languages: Expressions of Cues / Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir; title: Discourse relations and word order change / Ans van Kemenade; title: Methodological problems of the information-structural analysis of data from historical text corpora: On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: case study on Old High German / Svetlana Petrova and Michael Solf; title: Paleographic clues to Old High German prosody? : Accents, word separation, and related phenomena in Old High German manuscripts / Jürg Fleischer; title: On the 'syntax of silence' in Proto-Indo-European / Thomas Krisch; title: VI. Roland Hinterhölzl: 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; title: Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian / Svetlana Petrova; title: Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg / Andreas Lötscher; title: Translating information structure: A study of Notker's translation of Boethius's Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German / Rosemarie Lühr; title: Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon / Sonja Linde; title: Subject index.