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Topicalization and stress clash avoidance in the history of English

Summary: 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: 3110220237
ISBN: 9783110220230
ISBN: 3110220245
ISBN: 9783110220247
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Berlin ; New York : 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.