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Publication details [#30767]

Allen, Cynthia L. 2002. The development of `strengthened' possessive pronouns in English. Language Sciences 24 (3-4) : 189–211.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

analogy | historical explanation | possessive construction | processing | text analysis

Language as a subject

English, Middle

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This analysis of the developments of 'strengthened' possessives such as hers and hern via a re-examination of a wide range of Middle English texts, suggests that such considerations of language processing can give more coherence to the traditional concept of 'analogy'.