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The Old English Case System. Case and Argument Structure Constructions by Kirsten Middeke is a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work. This is the first major study on Old English morphosyntax from a constructional perspective, based on findings from various strands of theoretical linguistics, including generative approaches, constructionist accounts, quantitative linguistics, and many more. It argues for a new take on historical comparative syntax, a field which has been dormant for quite a while but might see a new boost through the ideas presented here.

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Kirsten Middeke, Ph.D. (2018), Freie Universität Berlin, is a postdoc at that university. She researches and teaches both synchronic and diachronic linguistics and is particularly interested in empirical methods for studying the semantics and evolution of grammatical constructions.

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