A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic

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.

Metadaten
Author:	Svetlana Petrova
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112129
ISBN:	978-3-939469-41-4
Parent Title (German):	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
Publisher:	Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:	Potsdam
Document Type:	Part of a Book
Language:	English
Year of Completion:	2006
Year of first Publication:	2006
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2008/11/06
Tag:	discourse; early Germanic; information structure; verb-second
Page Number:	33
First Page:	153
Last Page:	182
Source:	Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS), 5, 2006, Potsdam, S. 153-182.
HeBIS-PPN:	207574456
Dewey Decimal Classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:	Linguistik
Licence (German):	Deutsches Urheberrecht

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