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The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite its limited corpus - be used as data material? Further, which of the ascertained syntactic characteristics does Gothic have in common with other old Indo-European languages? Which of these features can be characterized as typically Germanic? It is shown that - despite a certain Greek influence - the Gothic Bible is indeed a rich source of data which can with some certainty be regarded as typically Gothic. Phenomena concerning the left periphery like personal pronouns, topicalization, left-dislocation and discourse particles are described and discussed within the generative framework, with additions from pragmatic and cognitive linguistics for those issues where syntax seems to be inadequate to cover the whole range of the phenomena concerned. The readership aimed at is that of linguists and philologists, and of scholars interested in the interrelation between both disciplines.

Germanic languages --- Grammar --- Gotique (langue) --- Gotisch (taal) --- Syntaxe --- Syntaxis --- Gothic language --- Word order --- Phraseology --- Syntax --- Ordre des mots --- Phraséologie --- Woordvolgorde. --- Gotisch. --- Gotique (Langue) --- Wortstellung. --- Syntax. --- Phraseologie. --- Word order. --- Phraseology. --- Ordre des mots. --- Phraséologie. --- Syntaxe. --- 439.9 --- Language East Germanic Gothic --- Gothic language - Word order --- Gothic language - Phraseology --- Gothic language - Syntax

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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)

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Didactics of languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language acquisition. --- Language and languages --- Language change. --- Linguistic change. --- Topic and comment. --- Variation. --- Language acquisition --- Linguistic change --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Topic and comment --- Variation --- Acquisition --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Information Structure. --- Language Change.

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Syntaxe --- Reconstruction (Linguistique) --- Syntax. --- Syntax --- Internal reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Protolanguages --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.

Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- German language --- Syntax --- History --- Grammar, Historical --- Clauses --- Word order --- German language - Syntax - History --- German language - History --- Ashkenazic German language --- Hochdeutsch --- Judaeo-German language (German) --- Judendeutsch language --- Judeo-German language (German) --- Jüdisch-Deutsch language --- Jüdischdeutsch language --- Germanic languages