Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages.
In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where bot...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Series: | Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
