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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
