Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English

The 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...

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Autores principales:	Theresa Bibenauer, Ans van Kemenade
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2011
Materias:	information structure nature of spec TP OV/VO word order subject positions word order Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b071a7dca1114f00892fb8a41c3206dd2021-11-27T10:47:30ZSubject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English10.5565/rev/catjl.321695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/b071a7dca1114f00892fb8a41c3206dd2011-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/32https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The 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.Theresa BibenauerAns van KemenadeUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleinformation structurenature of specTPOV/VO word ordersubject positionsword orderPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 10 (2011)
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description	The 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.
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title	Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English
title_short	Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English
title_full	Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English
title_fullStr	Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English
title_full_unstemmed	Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English
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Subject Positions and Information-Structural Diversification in the History of English

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