Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Ferraresi, Gisella.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 2010.
Series:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 10
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10415670
Table of Contents:
  • The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lθuhr
  • Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihβio / Rolando Fβeliz Armendβariz
  • 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 Hinterhθolzl.