Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Role of Information Structure in Language Change: Introductory Remarks -- Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Casein Warihío -- The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic -- Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish -- Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development -- Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat -- Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese -- The Development of V-to-C-Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages -- Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German -- Backmatter