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Estival, Dominique – 1986
An analysis of indirect object passives in English and their development from Late Old English and Early Middle English suggests that their existence is related to the development of double object constructions. As long as the dative and accusative cases had not merged, neither pronominal nor nominal indirect objects required a preposition;…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Download full textPintzuk, Susan – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An alternative account of the Old English verb-complement word order and the change from OV to VO is offered, based on an analysis of 16 Old English texts. Evidence is provided that the change does not involve abrupt reanalysis but rather synchronic competition between two grammars, beginning in the Old English period and continuing into Middle…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Influences
