Information Structure and Language Change

Eckardt, Regine; Speyer, Augustin

Information Structure and Language Change

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Datum

2014

Autor:innen

Eckardt, Regine

Speyer, Augustin

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Open Access Green

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Linguistik

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FÉRY, Caroline, ed., Shinichiro ISHIHARA, ed.. The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 503-519. ISBN 978-0-19-964267-0. Available under: doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.23

Zusammenfassung

This article explores the effect of language change on focusing and focus constructions based on observations and case studies. It begins by analysing bleached focus and contrasts it with independent focus. It also makes a distinction between universal focus effects and language-specific focus operators to show how language change can affect the specific parts of the grammar of focus. The discussion then turns to the emergence of focus sensitive particles, with particular reference to the semantic units that precede focus as part of semantic composition. The Jespersen Cycle is considered as a classic example of independent focus that gets bleached and finally lost. The article concludes by looking at information structure and syntactic change in the rise and loss of V2 in Germanic languages. It demonstrates how bleached focus can bridge the gap between the formal focus and informal notions of information structure.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Schlagwörter

language change, focus constructions, bleached focus, independent focus, universal focus, focus operators, grammar, Jespersen Cycle, information structure, Germanic languages

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ECKARDT, Regine, Augustin SPEYER, 2014. Information Structure and Language Change. In: FÉRY, Caroline, ed., Shinichiro ISHIHARA, ed.. The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 503-519. ISBN 978-0-19-964267-0. Available under: doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.23

BibTex

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  publisher={Oxford University Press},
  address={Oxford},
  booktitle={The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure},
  pages={503--519},
  editor={Féry, Caroline and Ishihara, Shinichiro},
  author={Eckardt, Regine and Speyer, Augustin}
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