Author: Allen, Cynthia L.
Title: Case Marking and Reanalysis: Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xviii,509 pp. Minor rubbing, some page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; An Overview of Old English Syntax; Case Marking & the Experiencer Verbs in Old English; The Syntax of the Experiencer Verbs in Old English; The Loss of Case Marking; The Development of the Experiencer Verbs; Explaining the Demise of the Preposed Dative Experiencer; Change in Passives: Single Objects; Changes in Passives: Verbs with More than One Object-like Argument; Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Early Modern, Old English, Germanic Languages, Language Morphology, Syntax, Case, Grammar, Syntactic Change