In the early modern period, title pages differed significantly in size, layout, informational content, and linguistic presentation from a typical title page today. This study focuses on the syntax of title pages during the 16 ^th and 17 ^th century. Based on a corpus of over 600 examples, it examines the syntactic structures and linguistic principles underlying early modern title pages.

Ursula Götz; Anne Gessing; Marko Neumann, University of Rostock; Annika Woggan, Julius-Leber-Schule, Hamburg, Germany.