Cynthia L. Allen

Cynthia L. Allen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Cynthia L. Allen plays a role.

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Taylor (2014) observes that some of the factual claims made in Allen (1980), the most thorough examination of free relatives in Old English to date, are not entirely correct. Taylor presents some examples that Allen’s analysis of Old English free relatives does not account for and proposes an… read more | Article
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Allen, Cynthia L. 2013. Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English: Split and group genitives. Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 1–34
Post-modified possessors have always been problematic in English because with such complex possessors the desire to put a topical possessor before the possessum brings into conflict two principles which English and many other Germanic languages strive to follow, namely that (1) the head of the… read more | Article
This paper looks at the disappearance of the ‘objective’ genitive with nouns of emotion in which the Stimulus of Emotion is a prenominal genitive, e.g. godes lufu ‘God’s love’ in the meaning of someone’s love towards God. A systematic corpus-based investigation involving three nouns of emotion… read more | Article
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Allen, Cynthia L. 2006. Possessives and determiners in Old English. Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 149–170
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Allen, Cynthia L. 2002. On the development of a friend of mine. English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 23–41
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Allen, Cynthia L. 1999. Bernd Heine. Possession. Studies in Language 23:3, pp. 663–674
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Allen, Cynthia L. 1995. On Doing as You Please. Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 275 ff.
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