Cynthia L. Allen

Broschiertes Buch

Case Marking and Reanalysis

Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

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