Topicalization and stress clash avoidance in the history of english
Auteur :
Speyer, Augustin
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110220230
Date de publication :
17 mars 2010
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
556 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
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.