: Roland Hinterhölzl, Svetlana Petrova
: Information Structure and Language Change New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110216110
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.40
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 400
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The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely, word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally marked and unmarked forms within one grammar.



Roland Hinterhölzl andSvetlana Petrova, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Frontmatter1
Table of Contents5
Introduction7
The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield23
The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change51
OV languages: Expressions of cues73
Discourse relations and word order change97
On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German127
Paleographic clues to prosody? – Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts167
On the “syntax of silence” in Proto-Indo-European197
Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor229
Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian257
Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg287
Translating information structure: A study of Notker’s translation of Boethius’s Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German329
Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon373