Hinterhölzl / Petrova Information Structure and Language Change

New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021611-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 203, 400 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinterhölzl, Roland

Petrova, Svetlana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield;23
5;The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change;51
6;OV languages: Expressions of cues;73
7;Discourse relations and word order change;97
8;On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German;127
9;Paleographic clues to prosody? – Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts;167
10;On the “syntax of silence” in Proto-Indo-European;197
11;Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor;229
12;Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian;257
13;Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg;287
14;Translating information structure: A study of Notker’s translation of Boethius’s Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German;329
15;Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon;373

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Hinterhölzl and Svetlana Petrova, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.