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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.

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.
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).