Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change / [electronic resource] :
edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Luhr.
- Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.
- 224 p. : ill.
- Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10 .
- Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9783110227475 (electronic bk.)
Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment. Language acquisition. Language and languages--Variation. Linguistic change.