Diachronic studies on information structure [[electronic resource] ] : language acquisition and change / / edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Rosemarie Lühr

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment; Language acquisition; Language and languages - Variation; Linguistic change
• Soggetto non controllato: Information Structure; Language Change
• Classificazione: ER 300
• Altri autori: FerraresiGisella LührRosemarie <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz -- 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 Hinterhölzl.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement. Editorial board Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig) Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig)
• Titolo autorizzato: Diachronic studies on information structure
• ISBN: 1-282-78408-0; 9786612784088; 3-11-022747-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822672903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language, context, and cognition ; ; v. 10.