Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English
Augustin Speyer
De Gruyter, 2010
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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. This book discusses the effects of this 'Clash Avoidance Requirement' in English and German as well as in Old English.
- ISBN-13
- 9783110220230
- ISBN-10
- 3110220237
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 2010
- Publication date
- 2010-03-17
- Pages
- 295
- Dimensions
- 230x155x
- Weight
- 556