Cynthia L. Allen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cynthia L. Allen plays a role.
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ISSN 1566-5852 | E-ISSN 1569-9854
2020 Case and preposition stranding in Old English free relatives NOWELE 73:2, pp. 193–220 | Article
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
2015 Review of Seržant & Kulikov (2013): The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects Diachronica 32:2, pp. 277–283 | Review
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 | Article
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
2009 On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 49–60 | 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
2006 Review of Machan (2003): English in the middle ages Studies in Language 30:1, pp. 221–225 | Review
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 | Article
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 | Article
1999 Bernd Heine. Possession Studies in Language 23:3, pp. 663–674 | Article
1995 On Doing as You Please Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 275–308 | Article
1995 Review of Denison (1993): English Historical Syntax Diachronica 12:2, pp. 255–262 | Review