The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics.

• 1. On the Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure: Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations - Bettelou Los, María José López-Couso, and Anneli Meurman-Solin


• 2. The Loss of Verb-Second and the Switch from Bounded to Unbounded Systems - Bettelou Los


• 3. The Effect of Information Structure on Object Position in Old English: A Pilot Study - Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk


• 4. Word Order, Information Structure and Discourse Relations: A Study of Old and Middle English Verb-Final Clauses - Kristin Bech


• 5. Syntax and Information Structure: Verb-Second Variation in Middle English - Ans van Kemenade and Marit Westergaard


• 6. Discourse Status and Syntax in the History of English: Some Explorations in Topicalization, Left-Dislocation and there-constructions - Javier Pérez-Guerra


• 7. Givenness and Word Order: A Study of Long Passives from Early Modern English to Present-Day English - Elena Seoane


• 8. The Connectives And, For, But, and Only as Clause and Discourse Type Indicators in 16th- and 17th-Century Epistolary Prose - Anneli Meurman-Solin


• 9. The Role of the Accessibility of the Subject in the Development of Adjectival Complementation from Old English to Present-Day English - An Van linden and Kristin Davidse


• 10. Latin Absolute Constructions and Their Old English Equivalents: Interfaces between Form and Information Structure - Olga Timofeeva


• 11. Why a Determiner? The Possessive + Determiner + Adjective Construction in Old English - Cynthia Allen


• 12. Functional shifts and the Development of English Determiners - Tine Breban


• 13. The Proximal and Distal Perspectives in Relation to the Position of Directional Modifiers in the English Noun Phrase - Turo Vartiainen

Anneli Meurman-Solin is Senior Researcher in English Historical Linguistics, University of Helsinki. María José López-Couso is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Bettelou Los is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen.