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Case Marking and Reanalysis: Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English - Softcover

Allen, Cynthia L.

 
9780198238676: Case Marking and Reanalysis: Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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).

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