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Information Structure and Language Change

Information Structure and Language Change New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783111737768
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
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Language: English
Number of pages: 394
Weight: -1g