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Rhythmic Grammar

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Topics in English Linguistics

Editors

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Bernd Kortmann

Mouton de Gruyter

Berlin · New York

Rhythmic Grammar

The Influence of Rhythm on

Grammatical Variation and Change in English

Julia Schlüter

Mouton de Gruyter

Berlin · New York

Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague)

is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.

Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rhythmic grammar : the influence of rhythm on grammatical varia-

tion and change in English / by Julia Schlüter.

p. cm.

(Topics in English linguistics ; 46)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 3-11-018607-1 (acid-free paper)

1. English language Rhythm. 2. English language Grammar,

Historical. 3. English language

Variation. I. Title. II. Series.

PE1561.S34 2005

425

dc22

2005022034

ISBN 3-11-018607-1

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Schlüter, Julia, 1973