In:Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 213] 2014
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 7 May 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.213.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages
Part I. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation
The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation
Testing the theory: Information structure in Old English
Part II. Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure
Quantifying information structure change in English
Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora: A case study of English object fronting and passivization
Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German: A diachronic survey
The cognitive status of null subject referents in Old Norse and their Modern Norwegian counterparts
Part III. Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure
Word order variation in late Middle English: The effect of information structure and audience design
Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French
Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French
Subjects and objects in Germanic and Romance
Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond
On the interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure: An interface approach to word order developments in Germanic
Contrastivity and information structure in the old Ibero-Romance languages
Index of languages
Databases and annotation schemes
Word index
