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Author: Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.753kg
ISBN: 9780198238676
ISBN 10: 0198238673
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 08 April 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
`Fruitful interaction between historical linguistics and linguistic theory is rarely the aim and even more rarely achieved ... Allen's work is a remarkable exception. It is her avowed intention to bring together the methodology, assumptions and principles of the two disciplines, to show that each can benefit from the other. This she does with signal success. Allen presents a careful and detailed examination of changes in case marking and claimed relationships to syntactic changes. This in itself is valuable and significant. More investigation ... a rewarding blend of descriptive rigour and theoretical insight.' Australian Journal of Linguistics `It is rich in historical detail, and there are inevitably many points to discuss ... I recommend this book for its detailed, careful and explicit historical account.' Journal of Linguistics
`Fruitful interaction between historical linguistics and linguistic theory is rarely the aim and even more rarely achieved ... Allen's work is a remarkable exception. It is her avowed intention to bring together the methodology, assumptions and principles of the two disciplines, to show that each can benefit from the other. This she does with signal success. Allen presents a careful and detailed examination of changes in case marking and claimed relationships to syntactic changes. This in itself is valuable and significant. More investigation ... a rewarding blend of descriptive rigour and theoretical insight.' Australian Journal of Linguistics `It is rich in historical detail, and there are inevitably many points to discuss ... I recommend this book for its detailed, careful and explicit historical account.' Journal of Linguistics
Fruitful interaction between historical linguistics and linguistic theory is rarely the aim and even more rarely achieved ... Allen's work is a remarkable exception. It is her avowed intention to bring together the methodology, assumptions and principles of the two disciplines, to show that each can benefit from the other. This she does with signal success. Allen presents a careful and detailed examination of changes in case marking and claimed relationships to syntactic changes. This in itself is valuable and significant. More investigation ... a rewarding blend of descriptive rigour and theoretical insight. Australian Journal of Linguistics It is rich in historical detail, and there are inevitably many points to discuss ... I recommend this book for its detailed, careful and explicit historical account. Journal of Linguistics
Author Information
Dr Cynthia L. Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University. She is co-editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, and author of Topics in Diachronic English Syntax (1980).
