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...
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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 ;
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Online Access: | Texto completo |