Cynthia L Allen

Genitives in Early English

Typology and Evidence

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers how English possessives changed from -es to 's during the middle ages. The author draws together her own and others' research on syntactic and morphological change in order to assess and explain the roles of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199216680
• ISBN-10: 0199216681
• Artikelnr.: 24878579

Autorenporträt

Cynthia L. Allen is Reader in Linguistics at the Australian National University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a former Director of the ANU Centre for Research on Language Change. Her published work includes articles in Transactions of the Philological Society, Linguistic Inquiry, and English Language and Linguistics and the book Case-Marking and Reanalysis (OUP 1995, paperback 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Genitive Case and the Typology of Case Marking
2: Genitive Case and the Germanic Languages: Overview
3: Genitive Case in Old English
4: Genitive Case in Middle English
5: The Possessor Doubling Constructions in the Germanic Languages
6: The Separated Genitive in English
7: Determiners and Possessives
8: Conclusions
Appendix
References