Diachronic studies on information structure : language acquisition and change / edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Lühr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferraresi, Gisella.

Lühr, Rosemarie, 1946-

Series:

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10.

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language acquisition.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement. Editorial board Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig) Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig)

Contents:

The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr

Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz

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 Hinterhölzl.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612784088

9781282784086

1282784080

9783110227475

3110227479

OCLC:

672025907