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Diachronic Studies on Information Structure - Language Acquisition and Change (Hardcover)
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Diachronic Studies on Information Structure - Language Acquisition and Change (Hardcover)
Series: Language, Context and Cognition
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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 (Universitat des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr.
Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie
Luhr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas
Pechmann (Universitat Leipzig) Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube
(Universitat Leipzig)
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