| Information Structure and Language Change: New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic Contributor(s): Hinterhölzl, Roland (Editor), Petrova, Svetlana (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110205912 ISBN-13: 9783110205916 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $179.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally marked and unmarked forms within one grammar. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | German - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Dewey: 430.045 |
| LCCN: 2009011896 |
| Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.62 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely, word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally marked and unmarked forms within one grammar. |