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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Speyer, Augustin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Series:Topics in English linguistics ; 69.
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