Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages 1
5. Part I. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation
6. The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation 17
7. Testing the theory 53
8. Part II. Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure
9. Quantifying information structure change in English 81
10. Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora 111
11. Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German 141
12. The cognitive status of null subject referents in Old Norse and their Modern Norwegian counterparts 173
13. Part III. Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure
14. Word order variation in late Middle English 203
15. Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French 233
16. Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French 271
17. Subjects and objects in Germanic and Romance 295
18. Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond 313
19. On the interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure 341
20. Contrastivity and information structure in the old Ibero-Romance languages 377
21. Index of languages 413
22. Databases and annotation schemes 415
23. Word index 417