Search Results for: Information Structure And Syntactic Change In Germanic And Romance Languages

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance language

This collection of essays provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background hav

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 corp