Case Syncretism and Word Order Change

The Handbook of the History of English

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 200-223

  Allen, Cynthia L ^a,b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ANU's Centre for Research on Language Change   (Australia)

^c Royal Historical Society   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differences; Proposals; Semantic roles; Syncretism; Verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890988930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757048.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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