Dative External Possessors in Early English

Cynthia L. Allen is a Fellow Emerita at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work in the history of English morphosyntax. She is the author of two previous OUP monographs examining the relationship between case marking loss and syntactic changes in English: Case Marking and Reanalysis (1995; paperback 1999) and Genitives in Early English (2008). She is a co-founder and current editorial board member of the de Gruyter Mouton series 'Studies in Language Change' and serves on the editorial board of OUP's "Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics."

1. Introduction
2. Dative case in Old English: An overview
3. Investigating dative external possessors in the history of English
4. Body and dative external possessors in Old English
5. Early changes in English
6. Mind and dative external possessors in Old English
7. External possessors in Early Middle English
8. Changes and explanations
9. Conclusions
Appendix A: Corpus
Appendix B: Vocabulary lists
Appendix C: Notes on searches
References
Index