Building and Using a Richly Annotated Interlinear Diachronic Corpus: The Case of Old High German Tatian

The present paper reports on the development and evaluation of a historical corpus designed to support detailed empirical studies on the inter action of information structure and syntax in Old High German (OHG). The creation and exploratio n of this corpus are part of a more general investigation concerning the role of informat ion-structural factors in the explana- tion of word order variation and change in the Germanic langu ages. The paper also describes corpus design principles, methodologies, relevant format s and specifications, and the technical infrastructure employed during the creation of the corpus,as well as its accessibility by means of the linguistic database of information structure ANNIS. RESUME. Cet article rapporte le developpement et l'evaluation d'un corpus historique concu pour des recherches empiriques sur l'interaction entre la s d'information et la syn- taxe dans l'ancien haut-allemand. La creation et l'exploration du corpus contribuent a l'investigation du role des conditions pragmatiques pour l a typologie syntaxique, sa variation