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 details:	Svetlana Petrova
URN:	urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19540
Publication type:	Article
Language:	English
Publication year:	2006
Publishing institution:	Universität Potsdam
Release date:	2008/07/21
Tag:	discourse; early Germanic; information structure; verb-second
Organizational units:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
DDC classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Collection(s):	Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2006) 05
Institution name at the time of the publication:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
License (German):	Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
External remark:	erschienen in: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl.Vol. 5. - 2006. - 221 S. : graph. Darst.ISSN 1614-4708ISBN 978-3-939469-41-4 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13047 --> bestellen