Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English : Oxford Studies in the History of English - Anneli Meurman-Solin

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

By: Anneli Meurman-Solin (Editor), Maria Jose Lopez-Couso (Editor), Bettelou Los (Editor)

Hardcover | 11 July 2012

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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony. Its unifying topic is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics. The volume comprises twelve chapters by leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Their work affirms, among other things, that motivations for selecting a particular syntactic option vary from information structure in the strict sense to discourse organization, or a particular style or register, and can also be associated with external forces such as the development of a literary culture.
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"This book presents valuable studies that pave the way for a deeper understanding of the interface between syntax and information structure on the diachronic axis...the book is useful not only for those working on the history of English, but for any historical linguist."--Linguist List

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