Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (Hardcover)

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony. Its unifying topic is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics. The volume comprises twelve chapters by leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Their work affirms, among other things, that motivations for selecting a particular syntactic option vary from information structure in the strict sense to discourse organization, or a particular style or register, and can also be associated with external forces such as the development of a literary culture.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Studies in the History of English
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	July 2012
Authors:	Anneli Meurman-Solin (Professor of Linguistics) • Maria Jose Lopez-Couso (Senior Lecturer) • Bettelou Los (Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions:	236 x 164 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-986021-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-19-986021-1
Barcode:	9780199860210

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