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The development of strengthened possessive pronouns in English

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dc.contributor.authorAllen, Cynthia
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:23:05Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T08:02:32Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the developments of 'strengthened' possessives such as hers and hers (earlier her) through a fresh examination of a substantial number of Middle English texts. These forms are first found in North Midlands and West Midlands texts of the thirteenth century, with the later -n forms of Southeastern dialects representing dative case rather than true 'strengthened' possessives. While the -s forms developed in rather different ways, both resulted in a processing advantage, as they signal to the hearer that no head NP is following. It is suggested that considerations of language processing have the potential to give more coherence to the traditional concept of 'analogy'.
dc.identifier.issn0388-0001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/72591
dc.publisherPergamon-Elsevier Ltd
dc.sourceLanguage Sciences
dc.subjectKeywords: Analogy; Case marking; Language processing; Middle English; Morphosyntax; Possessives
dc.titleThe development of strengthened possessive pronouns in English
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3-4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage211
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage189
local.contributor.affiliationAllen, Cynthia, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidAllen, Cynthia, u8413167
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub3325
local.identifier.citationvolume24
local.identifier.doi10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00028-6
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-11244306316
local.type.statusPublished Version

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