Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (Oxford Studies in the History of English) by Meurman-Solin, Anneli; Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose; Los, Bettelou

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Oxford University Press, 2012. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Tables and graphs. Index. x, 532 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the DJ, "Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony. Its unifying topic is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics. The volume comprises twelve chapters by leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Their work affirms, among other things, that motivations for selecting a particular syntactic option vary from information structure in the strict sense to discourse… Read More

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Hardback. New. The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics.