Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English
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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.