Diachronic studies on information structure
Subtitle: language acquisition and change
By: edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Lühr
Series: Language, context, and cognition -- v. 10; Language, context, and cognition -- v. 10.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783110227468
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Topic and comment; Language acquisition; Language and languages; Variation; Linguistic change
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of information structure in language change: introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr; title: Information structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz; title: The information structure of OVS in vedic / Carlotta Viti; title: Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke; title: Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard; title: Discourse and syntax in linguistic change: decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati; title: Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide; title: The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil; title: Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterhölzl.