Genitives in early English [electronic resource] : typology and evidence / Cynthia L. Allen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 p.)ISBN:- 9780191711893 (ebook) :
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This text considers how English possessives changed from '-es' to ''s' during the middle ages. The author draws together her own and others' research on syntactic and morphological change in order to assess and explain the roles of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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