This paper provides a description and account of some of the changes involving the DP, namely anaphoric marking in English (and Scandinavian). I argue that Old English personal pronouns are not deictic/referential but that demonstrative pronouns have this function. This situation reverses itself in early Middle English, due to both internal and external factors. The internal factors are the shift towards the use of demonstratives before noun, i.e. the introduction of an article; the external factors are language contact that introduces new personal pronouns. I also look at Old Norse where the use of pronouns and demonstratives is similar to that in Old English. This remains the case to a lesser degree in its modern descendants.
2022. Pronominally headed relative clauses in early English. English Language and Linguistics 26:1 ► pp. 105 ff.
Jurczyk, Rafał
2021. Between feature mapping and thematic prominence: Old englishse-demonstratives and pronouns in discourse. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 57:4 ► pp. 573 ff.
Konnelly, Lex & Elizabeth Cowper
2020. Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular <i>they</i>. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5:1
Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. & Karen De Clercq
2019. From negative cleft to external negator. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 228 ff.
Batllori, Montserrat, Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo & Isabel Pujol
2019. Changes in the argument and event structure of psych verbs in the history of Spanish. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 249 ff.
Bernstein, Judy, Francisco Ordóñez & Francesc Roca
2019. On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 88 ff.
Bjorkman, Bronwyn M., Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall & Andrew Peters
2019. Person and deixis in Heiltsuk pronouns. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 64:4 ► pp. 574 ff.
Blümel, Andreas & Marco Coniglio
2019. What kind of constructions yield what kind of constructions?. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 131 ff.
Miriam Bouzouita, Anne Breitbarth, Lieven Danckaert & Elisabeth Witzenhausen
2019. Cycles in Language Change,
Breitbarth, Anne, Lieven Danckaert, Elisabeth Witzenhausen & Miriam Bouzouita
2019. Cycling through diachrony. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 1 ff.
De Clercq, Karen
2019. French negation, the Superset Principle, and Feature Conservation. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 199 ff.
Fischer, Susann, Mario Navarro & Jorge Vega Vilanova
2019. The clitic doubling parameter. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 52 ff.
Fuß, Eric
2019. When morphological and syntactic change are not in sync. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 33 ff.
Garzonio, Jacopo & Silvia Rossi
2019. Weak elements in cycles. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 71 ff.
Kinn, Kari
2019. Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 109 ff.
Moreno, Mitrović
2019. Quantificational cycles and shifts. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 155 ff.
Poletto, Cecilia & Emanuela Sanfelici
2019. On the relative cycle. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. 177 ff.
COLE, MARCELLE
2017. Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. English Language and Linguistics 21:2 ► pp. 381 ff.
2019. Copyright Page. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. iv ff.
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2019. Series preface. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. vii ff.
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2019. List of abbreviations. In Cycles in Language Change, ► pp. ix ff.
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