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

Contributor(s): Ferraresi, Gisella | Luhr, Rosemarie, 1946- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010Description: 224 p. : illISBN: 9783110227475 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment | Language acquisition | Language and languages -- Variation | Linguistic changeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 401/.93 LOC classification: P298 | .D53 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Luhr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihio / Rolando Feliz Armendariz -- 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 Hinterholzl.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Luhr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihio / Rolando Feliz Armendariz -- 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 Hinterholzl.

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