Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

1. On the Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure: Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations - Bettelou Los, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, and Anneli Meurman-Solin ; 2. The Loss of Verb-Second and the Switch from Bounded to Unbounded Systems - Bettelou Los ; 3. The Effect of Information Structure on Object Position in Old English: A Pilot Study - Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk ; 4. Word Order, Information Structure and Discourse Relations: A Study of Old and Middle English Verb-Final Clauses - Kristin Bech ; 5. Syntax and Information Structure: Verb-Second Variation in Middle English - Ans van Kemenade and Marit Westergaard ; 6. Discourse Status and Syntax in the History of English: Some Explorations in Topicalization, Left-Dislocation and there-constructions - Javier Perez-Guerra ; 7. Givenness and Word Order: A Study of Long Passives from Early Modern English to Present-Day English - Elena Seoane ; 8. The Connectives And, For, But, and Only as Clause and Discourse Type Indicators in 16th- and 17th-Century Epistolary Prose - Anneli Meurman-Solin ; 9. The Role of the Accessibility of the Subject in the Development of Adjectival Complementation from Old English to Present-Day English - An Van linden and Kristin Davidse ; 10. Latin Absolute Constructions and Their Old English Equivalents: Interfaces between Form and Information Structure - Olga Timofeeva ; 11. Why a Determiner? The Possessive + Determiner + Adjective Construction in Old English - Cynthia Allen ; 12. Functional shifts and the Development of English Determiners - Tine Breban ; 13. The Proximal and Distal Perspectives in Relation to the Position of Directional Modifiers in the English Noun Phrase - Turo Vartiainen