Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. The Role of Information Structure in Language Change: Introductory Remarks 1
4. Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Casein Warihío 15
5. The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic 37
6. Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish 63
7. Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development 87
8. Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat 117
9. Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese 143
10. The Development of V-to-C-Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages 161
11. Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German 189
12. Backmatter 219