Dative External Possessors in Early English
Author:   Cynthia L. Allen (Fellow Emerita, Fellow Emerita, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   39
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9780198832263


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Dative External Possessors in Early English


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Author:   Cynthia L. Allen (Fellow Emerita, Fellow Emerita, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.618kg
ISBN:  

9780198832263


ISBN 10:   0198832265
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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1: Introduction 2: Dative case in Old English: An overview 3: Investigating dative external possessors in the history of English 4: Body and dative external possessors in Old English 5: Early changes in English 6: Mind and dative external possessors in Old English 7: External possessors in Early Middle English 8: Changes and explanations 9: Conclusions Appendix A: Corpus Appendix B: Vocabulary lists Appendix C: Notes on searches References Index

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Cynthia L. Allen is a Fellow Emerita at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work in the history of English morphosyntax. She is the author of two previous OUP monographs examining the relationship between case marking loss and syntactic changes in English: Case Marking and Reanalysis (1995; paperback 1999) and Genitives in Early English (2008). She is a co-founder and current editorial board member of the de Gruyter Mouton series 'Studies in Language Change' and serves on the editorial board of OUP's 'Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics'.

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