Language Change at the Interfaces : Intrasentential and Intersentential Phenomena.

Intro -- Language Change at the Interfaces -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are going -- 1. The notion of interface -- 2. Interfaces in language change -- 3. Contents of the volume -- References -- Part I. Interface phenomena at the intrasentential level -- Information structure and Jespersen's cycle: The dialects of Veneto as a window on processes of language change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Incipient and full-scale Jespersen's cycle -- 3. Information structure and incipient Jespersen's cycle -- 4. Pilot study -- 5. Results -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Funding -- References -- The object position in Old Norwegian: An interplay between syntax, prosody, and information structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Word order variation in Old Norse -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results and theoretical implications -- 5. Some remarks on the data -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Bare quantifiers and Verb Second: The view from Old Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tutto, molto and niente in the low IP area -- 3. Bare QPs and V2 -- 4. Fronting of molto is different -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- Source Abbreviations and Editions of Texts -- References -- On the role of information structure in the licensing of null subjects in Old High German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null subjects in Old High German -- 3. The present investigation -- 4. Proposed analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Interface phenomena at the intersentential level -- Gehen as a new auxiliary in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: The grammaticalization of gehen in German -- 3. Experiments -- 4. Theoretical interpretation -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Funding.

References -- Discourse-driven asymmetries between embedded interrogatives and relative clauses in West Germanic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reanalysis -- 3. Doubling and information structure -- 4. Historical changes in English -- 5. Information structure and the Accessibility Hierarchy -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Discourse relations and the German prefield -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The prefield and discourse relations in Modern German -- 3. The prefield and discourse relations in Early New High German -- 4. The ranking of PPF in Early New High German and Modern German -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research hypotheses -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Data -- 5. Discussion -- Funding -- References -- Index.

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse - with a special focus on Germanic and Romance - and their role in language change.

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