Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The role of information structure in the grammar -- The verb-second property in Old High German: Different ways of filling the prefield -- The role of information structure in word order variation and word order change -- OV languages: Expressions of cues -- Discourse relations and word order change -- Methodological problems of the information-structural analysis of data from historical text corpora -- On the methods of information-structural analysis in historical texts: A case study on Old High German -- Paleographic clues to prosody? - Accents, word separation, and other phenomena in Old High German manuscripts -- On the "syntax of silence" in Proto-Indo-European -- Information-structural categories in the main texts of the early German inheritance -- Word order variation and information structure in Old High German: An analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor -- Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian -- Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg -- Translating information structure: A study of Notker's translation of Boethius's Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae into Old High German -- Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon -- Backmatter