Ebook: Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English
Author: Augustin Speyer
- Series: Topics in English Linguistics 69
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- City: Berlin ; New York
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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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. 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.
Content: 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.
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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. Read more...
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