The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The role of information structure in the grammar
5. The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield 17
6. The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change 45
7. OV languages: Expressions of cues 67
8. Discourse relations and word order change 91
9. Methodological problems of the information-structural analysis of data from historical text corpora
10. On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German 121
11. Paleographic clues to prosody? – Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts 161
12. On the “syntax of silence” in Proto-Indo-European 191
13. Information-structural categories in the main texts of the early German inheritance
14. Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor 223
15. Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian 251
16. Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg 281
17. Translating information structure: A study of Notker’s translation of Boethius’s Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German 323
18. Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon 367
19. Backmatter 391