Beschreibung:
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.
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