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Topicalization and stress clash avoidance in the history of English / by Augustin Speyer.
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 English and German as well as in Old English, where it plays a crucial role in subject movement.
Record details
- ISBN: 9783110220247
- ISBN: 3110220245
- ISBN: 9783110220230
- ISBN: 3110220237
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Berlin ; De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | English language > Grammar, Historical. English language > Syntax. English language > Word order. English language > History. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
