Subject positions and information-structural diversification in the history of english

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dc.contributor.authorBiberauer T.
dc.contributor.authorVan Kemenade A.
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-12T08:33:55Z
dc.date.available2012-04-12T08:33:55Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this paper is to integrate Information Structure/IS-related insights of past work on the subject system of Old English with a particular formal account of word-order variation and change in earlier English that did not take IS considerations into account. We offer a first detailed formal account of how the IS-sensitive Old English subject positions can be understood in the context of an OV system which was becoming increasingly VO, and thereafter outline subject-related developments during Middle English and Early Modern English, leading us to the present day. Against the background of these diachronic developments, our contention is that English has, in one way or another, exhibited IS-sensitive subject positions throughout its history and that, as argued by Kiss (1996), it continues to do so today.
dc.identifier.citationCatalan Journal of Linguistics
dc.identifier.citation10
dc.identifier.citation1
dc.identifier.citation17
dc.identifier.citation69+247
dc.identifier.issn16956885
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20740
dc.subjectInformation structure
dc.subjectNature of spec
dc.subjectOV/VO word order
dc.subjectSubject positions
dc.subjectTP
dc.subjectWord order
dc.titleSubject positions and information-structural diversification in the history of english
dc.typeReview
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