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Dative External Possessors in Early English [Hardback]

(Fellow Emerita, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University)
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This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English and their diachronic development. Modern English is unusual among European languages in not having a productive dative external possessor construction, whereby the possessor is in the dative case and behaves like an element of the sentence rather than part of the possessive phrase. This type of construction was found in Old English, however, especially in expressions of inalienable possession; it appeared in variation with the internal possessors in the genitive case, which then became the only productive possibility in Middle English.

In this book, Cynthia Allen traces the use of dative external possessors in the texts of the Old and early Middle English periods and explores how the empirical data fit with the hypotheses put forward to date. She draws on recent developments in linguistic theory to evaluate both language-internal explanations for the loss of the dative construction and the possible role of language contact, especially with the Brythonic Celtic languages. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of historical syntax and morphology, language variation and change, and the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.
Series preface vii
Preface ix
List of tables
xiii
List of abbreviations
xv
A note on glossing xvii
1 Introduction
1(24)
1.1 Dative external possessors
3(1)
1.2 Theoretical issues
4(8)
1.3 Typological considerations
12(2)
1.4 Previous studies of external possession in early English
14(8)
1.5 Corpus and historical scope
22(1)
1.6 Organization of the book
23(2)
2 Dative case in Old English: An overview
25(20)
2.1 Dative and instrumental
25(2)
2.2 Verbal objects
27(4)
2.3 Complements of adjectives and nouns
31(1)
2.4 Copulas, `impersonal' constructions, and `extended existence'
32(4)
2.5 Dative + PP with copulas
36(1)
2.6 Dative + to with other verbs
37(1)
2.7 `Free' and `adverbial' datives
38(5)
2.8 `Impersonal' constructions with datives with lexical verbs
43(1)
2.9 Conclusion
44(1)
3 Investigating dative external possessors in the history of English
45(13)
3.1 Introduction
45(2)
3.2 The corpus
47(3)
3.3 Methodology
50(6)
3.4 Summary
56(2)
4 Body and dative external possessors in Old English
58(43)
4.1 Introduction
58(1)
4.2 Results: object possessa
59(12)
4.3 Results: subject possessa with lexical verbs
71(10)
4.4 Subject possessa with adjectival predicates
81(3)
4.5 Comparing subject and object possessa
84(4)
4.6 The question of Latin influence
88(5)
4.7 Direct arguments: conclusions
93(1)
4.8 Results: objects of prepositions (PObjs)
94(5)
4.9 Conclusions on DEPs of body possessa in OE
99(2)
5 Early changes in English
101(20)
5.1 Introduction
101(1)
5.2 A change from Germanic?
101(8)
5.3 A change within OE? Range and frequency of DEPs
109(11)
5.4 Conclusions on early changes
120(1)
6 Mind and dative external possessors in Old English
121(29)
6.1 Introduction
122(12)
6.2 Direct arguments
134(14)
6.3 PObjs
148(2)
6.4 Conclusions: body and mind
150(1)
7 External possessors in Early Middle English
150(49)
7.1 Introduction
151(1)
7.2 The transition to Middle English
151(1)
7.3 The pre-ml period
152(10)
7.4 Summary and comparison with late OE
162(2)
7.5 M1 and beyond
164(1)
7.6 The dative case in EME
165(10)
7.7 Searching for `dative case' and DEPs in Middle English
175(2)
7.8 Direct arguments: body
177(6)
7.9 Prepositional phrases
183(10)
7.10 Results: mind
193(2)
7.11 Conclusion: from OE to ME
195(4)
8 Changes and explanations
199(30)
8.1 Introduction
199(1)
8.2 Internal explanations
200(14)
8.3 External explanations
214(8)
8.4 Conclusions
222(7)
9 Conclusion
229(8)
Appendix A Corpus 237(10)
Appendix B Vocabulary lists 247(12)
Appendix C Notes on searches 259(12)
References 271(8)
Index 279
Cynthia L. Allen is a Fellow Emerita at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work in the history of English morphosyntax. She is the author of two previous OUP monographs examining the relationship between case marking loss and syntactic changes in English: Case Marking and Reanalysis (1995; paperback 1999) and Genitives in Early English (2008). She is a co-founder and current editorial board member of the de Gruyter Mouton series 'Studies in Language Change' and serves on the editorial board of OUP's 'Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics'.