Dative External Possessors in Early English

ISBN: 9780198832263 出版年：2019 页码：307 Allen, Cynthia L Oxford University Press

This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of the development of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English. It draws on empirical data and recent developments in linguistic theory to evaluate language-internal and language contact-based explanations for the loss of these constructions in Middle English.