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Rhythmic grammar : the influence of rhythm on grammatical variation and change in English /
This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adja...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
46. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an influence on a wide variety of phenomena in morphology and syntax. Based on in-depth analyses of extensive electronic databases, the book presents 20 exemplary studies from different structural categories. Among them are much-debated as well as novel issues, includi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-383) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110219265 3110219263 1282296639 9781282296633 9786612296635 6612296631 |