In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology. Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in...
In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/B...
In den letzten Jahren hat sich die generative Grammatik in Form des Prinzipien-Parameter-Modells verstarkt auch mit den diachronen Aspekten der Syntax einzelner Sprachen befasst. Das neu erwachte Interesse an der Diachronie beruht zum Teil darauf, dass das P&P-Modell relativ starke Vorhersagen daruber macht, wie und in welchem Umfang syntaktischer Wandel uberhaupt moglich ist.Ein Phanomen, das nicht nur in der diachronischen Betrachtung der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen eine zentrale Stellung einnimmt, ist das des sogenannten V/2. Dieser Thematik widmen sich alleine vier Beitrage aus...
In den letzten Jahren hat sich die generative Grammatik in Form des Prinzipien-Parameter-Modells verstarkt auch mit den diachronen Aspekten der Syntax...
This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.
This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of to...
