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Information Structure and Language Change

New Approaches to Word Order Variation in Germanic

Information Structure and Language Change
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The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely, word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally marked and unmarked forms within one grammar.
Walter de Gruyter, Inc.; May 2009
400 pages; ISBN 9783110216110
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