Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages (by Bech, Kristin); 3. Part I. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation; 4. The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation (by Haug, Dag T.T.); 5. Testing the theory: Information structure in Old English (by Taylor, Ann); 6. Part II. Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure; 7. Quantifying information structure change in English (by Komen, Erwin R.); 8. Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora: A case study of English object fronting and passivization (by Dreschler, Gea); 9. Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German: A diachronic survey (by Coniglio, Marco); 10. The cognitive status of null subject referents in Old Norse and their Modern Norwegian counterparts (by Kinn, Kari); 11. Part III. Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure; 12. Word order variation in late Middle English: The effect of information structure and audience design (by Eitler, Tamas); 13. Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French (by Bech, Kristin); 14. Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French (by Petrova, Svetlana); 15. Subjects and objects in Germanic and Romance (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 16. Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond (by Walkden, George); 17. On the interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure: An interface approach to word order developments in Germanic (by Hinterholzl, Roland); 18. Contrastivity and information structure in the old Ibero-Romance languages (by Eide, Kristine Gunn); 19. Index of languages; 20. Databases and annotation schemes; 21. Word index