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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton
c2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Topics in English linguistics ; 69. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31327837*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany-2008. |
| Descripción Física: | ix, 286 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9783110220247 9783110220230 |
