Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English /

Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English / / Augustin Speyer.

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The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of object topicalization. The approach is data-oriented, using material from syntactically parsed digital corpora of Old, Middle and Early Modern En...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Speyer, Augustin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 69
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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
  • Backmatter

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