Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages

Bech, Kristin; Eide, Kristine Gunn

doi:10.1075/la.213.01int

Part of

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 213] 2014
► pp. 1–14

Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages

Kristin Bech | University of Oslo

Kristine Gunn Eide | University of Oslo

Published online: 7 May 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.213.01int

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