Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

by María José López-Couso, Bettelou Los, Anneli Meurman-Solin

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199860211
• ISBN13: 9780199860210
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"