Download or read book Topicalization and Stress Clash Avoidance in the History of English written by Augustin Speyer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.