Genitives in early English

"This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es developed into the more clitic-like 's, but how, when, why, and over how long a time are unclear, and have been subject to considerable research and discussion. Cynthia L. Allen draws together her own and others' findings in areas such as case marking, the nature of syntactic and morphological change, and the role of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change." "This ground-breaking book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Middle English in particular and the history of English in general."--Jacket.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

354

ISBN

9780199216680

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata