Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Bettelou Los

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199938483
• Artikelnr.: 38174138

Autorenporträt

Anneli Meurman-Solin is Senior Researcher in English Historical Linguistics, University of Helsinki. María José López-Couso is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Bettelou Los is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. On the Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure: Synchronic
and Diachronic Considerations - Bettelou Los, María José López-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 Pérez-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