Diachronic Studies on Information Structure : : Language Acquisition and Change / / ed. by Gisella Ferraresi, Rosemarie Lühr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Armendáriz, Rolando Féliz,; Eide, Kristine Gunn,; Ferraresi, Gisella,; Gabriel, Christoph,; Hinterhölzl, Roland,; Lühr, Rosemarie,; Matić, Dejan,; Petrova, Svetlana,; Rinke, Esther,; Viti, Carlotta,; Westergaard, Marit,; Wratil, Melanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Ferraresi, Gisella,; Lühr, Rosemarie,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Context and Cognition , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. und Tab.

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 pragm...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• The Role of Information Structure in Language Change: Introductory Remarks
• Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Casein Warihío
• The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic
• Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish
• Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development
• Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat
• Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese
• The Development of V-to-C-Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages
• Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German
• Backmatter