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

By Cynthia L. Allen

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198238673
• ISBN13: 9780198238676
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"