TY  - CHAP
A1  - Petrova, Svetlana
T1  - A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 5
N2  - The paper presents a novel approach to explaining word order variation in the early Germanic languages. Initial observations about verb placement as a device marking types of rhetorical relations made on data from Old High German (cf. Hinterhölzl & Petrova 2005) are now reconsidered on a larger scale and compared with evidence from other early Germanic languages. The paper claims that the identification of information-structural domains in a sentence is best achieved by taking into account the interaction between the pragmatic features of discourse referents and properties of discourse organization.
KW  - verb-second
KW  - early Germanic
KW  - discourse
KW  - information structure
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10022
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112129
SN  - 978-3-939469-41-4
SP  - 153
EP  - 182
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -