ISBN: 9783110220230 - topicalization and stress clash avoidance in the history of english (topics in english linguistics [tiel], 69) (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Sehr gut. IX, 286 S. mit graph. Darst. ; 24 cm Tadelloser, neuwertiger Zustand -- Inhalt: Introduction: Overview -- Some background -- Further concepts -- Topicalization in Middle and Modern English - A prosodically induced change in syntactic usage: The decline of topicalization -- The pragmatic properties of topicalization -- A possible explanation: rigidity of word order -- A third Explanation: the Clash Avoidance Requirement -- Prosody beats Pragmatics -- The Clash Avoidance Requirement in Modern English and German: Double foci -- Conceptual aspects of the Clash Avoidance Requirement -- The Clash Avoidance Requirement in German -- Phonological Aspects of the Clash Avoidance Requirement: The relationship of metrical prominence and focus -- Clash and pause -- Topicalization and the Clash Avoidance Requirement in Old English: V2 and V3 in Old English -- Is V3 really V3? -- V3 in (Old High) German -- The nature of the two subject positions -- A short outlook on poetry -- Concluding remarks: Appendix: All Old English OSV-sentences with full noun -- phrase accusative object and subject -- Index of names -- Index of subjects. ISBN 9783110220230 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 English, which serve as a solid foundation for conclusions. The use of object topicalization underwent a sharp decline from Old English until today. In the present volume, a basic prosodic well-formedness condition, the Clash Avoidance Requirement, is identified as the main factor for this change. With the loss of V2-syntax, object topicalization led more easily to cases in which two focalized phrases, the topicalized object and the subject, are adjacent. The two focal accents on these phrases would produce a clash, thus violating the Clash Avoidance Requirement. In order to circumvent this, the use of topicalization in critical cases is avoided. The Clash Avoidance Requirement is highly relevant also today, as experimental data on English and German show. Further, the Clash Avoidance Requirement helps to explain the well-known syntactic structure of the left periphery in Old English. An analysis positing two subject positions is defended in the study. The variation of these subject positions is shown to depend not on pronominal vs. lexical status of the subject but on information structural properties.…

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Zustand: New. pp. ix + 286 19 Figures, Illus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 286 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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