Diachronic studies on information structure [electronic resource] : language acquisition and change / edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie L�uhr.

Contributor(s): Series: Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.Description: 224 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 401/.93 22
LOC classification:
  • P298 .D53 2010eb
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Contents:
The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie L�uhr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warih�io / Rolando F�eliz Armend�ariz -- The information structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti -- Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke -- Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard -- Discourse and syntax in linguistic change : decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati -- Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide -- The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil -- Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterh�olzl.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie L�uhr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warih�io / Rolando F�eliz Armend�ariz -- The information structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti -- Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke -- Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard -- Discourse and syntax in linguistic change : decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati -- Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide -- The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil -- Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterh�olzl.

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