Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Interface phenomena and language change 1
5. Part I. Interface phenomena at the intrasentential level
6. Information structure and Jespersen’s cycle 35
7. The object position in Old Norwegian 61
8. Bare quantifiers and Verb Second 95
9. On the role of information structure in the licensing of null subjects in Old High German 123
10. Part II. Interface phenomena at the intersentential level
11. Gehen as a new auxiliary in German 165
12. Discourse-driven asymmetries between embedded interrogatives and relative clauses in West Germanic 189
13. Discourse relations and the German prefield 215
14. Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses 235
15. Index 253