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.


Electronic books.

P298 / .D53 2010

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