Argument and Rhetoric. Adverbial Connectors in the History of English

the book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.

Genitives in Early English - Typology and Evidence

This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es developed into the more clitic-like 's, but how, when, why, and over how long a time are unclear, and have been subject to considerable research and discussion. Cynthia L. Allen draws together her own and others' findings in areas such as case marking, the nature of syntactic and morphological change, and the role of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change.

Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations - A Comprehensive Bibliography

This is the first of a series of six books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European. The This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in reserch into case and case-related phenomena. This includes morphological case markers and cross-constituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various conterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations.