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Abstract
This paper reconsiders the history of two little-known third-person pronouns – 3pl. acc. his and 3sg. fem. acc. his – attested only during Middle English. Competing theories of their origins are evaluated and a novel account is proposed. The paper highlights an important gap in our understanding of the history of English oblique pronouns and supplies the most comprehensive description yet published of the distribution of these innovative forms.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Folia Linguistica Historica |
Volume | 36 |
Early online date | 31 Oct 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Middle English
- pronouns
- innovation
- variation
- LAEME
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FITS: From Inglis to Scots (FITS): Mapping sounds to spellings
Los, B., Alcorn, R., Karaiskos, V., Maguire, W., Kopaczyk, J., Molineaux Ress, B. & Smith, D.
31/03/14 → 30/03/18
Project: Research
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CoNE: A Corpus of Narrative Etymologies from primitive Old English to early Middle English
Laing, M., Williamson, K., Alcorn, R. & Lass, R.
1/09/10 → 31/12/13
Project: Research