Information Structure and Language Change
：New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic
( Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM )
Publication subTitle ：New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic
Publication series ：Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM
Author： Roland Hinterhölzl Svetlana Petrova
Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9783110216110
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110205916
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Keyword： Historical linguistics germanic languages syntax
Language： ENG
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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.
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