Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2012
352 pages
978-0-19-993848-3 (ISBN)
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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 corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony.
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Anneli Meurman-Solin | Maria Jose Lopez-Couso | Bettelou Los
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. On the Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure: Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations
- PART ONE: Syntax and Information Structure: From Verb-Second/Object-Verb to Subject-Verb-Object
- 2. The Loss of Verb-Second and the Switch from Bounded to Unbounded Systems
- 3. The Effect of Information Structure on Object Position in Old English: A Pilot Study
- 4. Word Order, Information Structure, and Discourse Relations: A Study of Old and Middle English Verb-Final Clauses
- 5. Syntax and Information Structure: Verb-Second Variation in Middle English
- PART TWO: Developing a Grammar of Prose: Syntax and Information Structure after 1500
- 6. Discourse Status and Syntax in the History of English: Some Explorations in Topicalization, Left-Dislocation, and There-Constructions
- 7. Givenness and Word Order: A Study of Long Passives from Early Modern English to Present-Day English
- 8. The Connectives And, For, But, and Only as Clause and Discourse Type Indicators in 16th- and 17th-Century Epistolary Prose
- PART THREE: Information Structure and Nonfinite Clauses
- 9. The Role of the Accessibility of the Subject in the Development of Adjectival Complementation from Old English to Present-Day English
- 10. Latin Absolute Constructions and Their Old English Equivalents: Interfaces between Form and Information Structure
- PART FOUR: Information Structure and the Internal Structure of the Noun Phrase
- 11. Why a Determiner? The Possessive + Determiner + Adjective Construction in Old English
- 12. Functional Shifts and the Development of English Determiners
- 13. The Proximal and Distal Perspectives in Relation to the Position of Directional Modifiers in the English Noun Phrase
- Index
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