Cynthia L. Allen

Case Marking and Reanalysis

Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English

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Produktbeschreibung

English underwent sweeping changes to its inflectional system in the Middle English period and it is widely assumed that the loss of case-marking distinctions had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. Allen here makes a detailed study of these changes, questioning the results of previous analyses which, she argues, posit too direct a link between the morphological and syntactic changes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 799g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238676
• ISBN-10: 0198238673
• Artikelnr.: 24077581

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: An Overview of Old English Syntax
3: Case Marking and the Experiencer Verbs in Old English
4: The Syntax of the Experiencer Verbs in Old English
5: The Loss of Case Marking
6: The Development of the Experiencer Verbs
7: Explaining the Demise of the Preposed Dative Experiencer
8: Change in Passives: Single Objects
9: Changes in Passives: Verbs with More than One Object-like Argument
10: Conclusion
Appendices