TY - BOOK ID - 313584 TI - Diachronic Studies on Information Structure AU - Armendáriz, Rolando Féliz AU - Eide, Kristine Gunn AU - Ferraresi, Gisella AU - Gabriel, Christoph AU - Hinterhölzl, Roland AU - Lühr, Rosemarie AU - Matic, Dejan AU - Petrova, Svetlana AU - Rinke, Esther AU - Westergaard, Marit AU - Wratil, Melanie AU - Viti, Carlotta PY - 2010 SN - 9783110227468 9783110227475 3110227479 3110227460 1282784080 9786612784088 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Grammar KW - Didactics of languages KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Language acquisition. KW - Language and languages KW - Language change. KW - Linguistic change. KW - Topic and comment. KW - Variation. KW - Language acquisition KW - Linguistic change KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Historical linguistics KW - Characterology of speech KW - Language diversity KW - Language subsystems KW - Language variation KW - Linguistic diversity KW - Variation in language KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Topic and comment KW - Variation KW - Acquisition KW - Subject and predicate KW - Syntax KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Information Structure. KW - Language Change. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:313584 AB - In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement. Editorial board Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig) Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig) ER -