Eintrag

Titel

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages

Personen

Kristin Bech, Kristine Gunn Eide

Jahr

2014

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Band

213

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Französisch
Norwegisch
Portugiesisch
Spanisch

Schlagwörter

Kontrastiv
Sprachwandel
Syntax

Abstract

The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In addition to discussing changes in individual languages along the syntax–information structure axis, the volume also makes a point of comparing and contrasting different languages with respect to the interplay between syntax and information structure. Since the creation of increasingly sophisticated annotated corpora of historical texts is on the agenda in many research environments, methods and schemes for information structure annotation and analysis of historical texts from a theoretical and applied perspective are discussed.

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