Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages - Bech, Kristin (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014)
2. The distribution of full and reduced definite articles in Present-day German: Some theoretical concepts
Information Structure and Syntactic Changein Germanic and Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; PartI. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation; Part II. Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure; Part III.Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure; Acknowledgements; Information structure and syntax in oldGermanic and Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to information structure and syntax in historical linguistics; 3. Annotated corpora; 4. The structure of the book; References
The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation1. Introduction; 1.1 Theory and practice; 2. Theory; 2.1 Discourse referents; 2.2 Taggables; 2.3 Reference contexts; 2.4 Contexts and reference resolution in dynamic semantics; 2.4.1 The discourse context; 2.4.2 The encyclopaedic context and the situation context; 2.4.3 The scenario context; 2.4.4 Embedded contexts and non-specificity; 2.5 Generic reference; 2.6 The PROIEL tagset; 3. Annotation in practice; 3.1 General; 3.2 Specificity -- nonspec vs. new; 3.3 Genericity; 3.3.1 kind vs. nonspec; 3.3.2 kind vs. acc-gen; 3.4 Bridging
3.4.1 acc-inf vs old3.4.2 acc-inf vs new, nonspec or no tag -- the limits to inference; 4. Evaluation and conclusions; 4.1 The PROIEL scheme and other givenness annotation schemes; 4.2 Annotation workflow and interannotator agreement; 4.3 Data sample; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Testing the theory; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. 'Old/given' information; 4. Inferables; 5. 'New' information; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A: Notes on data collection; References; Quantifying information structure changein English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Old English V2 syntax and the subject
1.2 The changing role of the English subject1.3 Hypotheses; 2. Corpora; 2.1 Referential status; 2.2 Enriched texts; 3. Experiments; 3.1 Subject ellipsis; 3.2 Subject referent switch; 3.2.1 A definition of subject-referent switch; 3.2.2 Measuring subject-referent switch; 3.2.3 Subject-referent switch results; 3.2.4 Subject chain distribution; 3.3 Subject animacy; 3.3.1 Determining subject animacy; 3.3.2 Subject animacy results; 3.4 Pre-subject linking; 3.4.1 Clause-initial linking; 3.4.2 Determining pre-subject linking; 3.4.3 Pre-subject linking results; 4. Conclusions and discussion