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Information Structure and Language Change - New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic (Hardcover)
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Information Structure and Language Change - New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order
variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to
one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory
of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our
approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at
describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb
placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of
language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon
related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information
packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly
accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only
in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and
intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving
information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents
empirical studies on the relation between word order and
information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German
period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order
change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of
German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers
interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German,
language change, information structure, discourse semantics,
language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.
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