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- Title: Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance In the History of English
- Author : Augustin Speyer
- Release Date : January 26, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 18414 KB
Description
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.