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Topicalization and stress clash avoidance in the history of English /
The use of object topicalization declined in Middle and Early Modern English because with the loss of V2, topicalization easily led to prosodically ill-formed sentences with focal accents in clash. The book presents and discusses the effects of this ;Clash Avoidance Requirement in present-day Englis...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ;
69. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Topicalization in Middle and Modern English-A prosodically induced change in syntactic usage
- 3. The Clash Avoidance Requirement in Modern English and German
- 4. Phonological aspects of the Clash Avoidance Requirement
- 5. Topicalization and the Clash Avoidance Requirement in Old English
- 6. Concluding remarks.