30.4690, Books: Dative External Possessors in Early English: Allen

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:49:32
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Dative External Possessors in Early English: Allen

 


Title: Dative External Possessors in Early English 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dative-external-possessors-in-early-english-9780198832263?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Cynthia L. Allen

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198832263 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative
external possessors in Old and Early Middle English and their diachronic
development. Modern English is unusual among European languages in not having
a productive dative external possessor construction, whereby the possessor is
in the dative case and behaves like an element of the sentence rather than
part of the possessive phrase. This type of construction was found in Old
English, however, especially in expressions of inalienable possession; it
appeared in variation with the internal possessors in the genitive case, which
then became the only productive possibility in Middle English.

In this book, Cynthia Allen traces the use of dative external possessors in
the texts of the Old and early Middle English periods and explores how the
empirical data fit with the hypotheses put forward to date. She draws on
recent developments in linguistic theory to evaluate both language-internal
explanations for the loss of the dative construction and the possible role of
language contact, especially with the Brythonic Celtic languages. The book
will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of historical
syntax and morphology, language variation and change, and the comparative
syntax of the Germanic languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)
                     English, Old (ang)


Written In: English  (eng)

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