CINDY ALLEN

Research Interests:

Dr Cynthia Allen is a Reader in the Department of Linguistics, Arts and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her specialty is the history of English syntax and her research interests also include syntactic theory generally. She is currently investigating the history of possessive constructions in English.

Selected Publications:

Books:

1980. Topics in Diachronic English Syntax. New York: Garland Publishing.

1995. Case-Marking and Reanalysis: Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English.. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Articles and Papers:

1980. "Movement and Deletion in Old English," Linguistic Inquiry 11:2, pp. 261-323.

1986. "Reconsidering the History of Like," Journal of Linguistics 22, pp. 375-409.

1992. "Old English and the Syntactician: Some Remarks and a Syntactician's Guide to Editions of the Works of Ælfric". In Edinburgh Studies in the English Language Vol. 2, edited by Fran Colman. Pp. 1-19. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers.

1996. "A Change to Structural Case Marking in Early Middle English". In Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax II, edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Samuel David Epstein, and Steve Peter. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-20.

1997. "Middle English Case Loss and the `Creolization' Hypothesis", English Language and Linguistics 1.1, pp. 63-89.

1997. "The Origins of the `Group Genitive' in English," Transactions of the Philological Society 95:1, pp. 111-131.

1997. "The Development of an 'Impersonal' Verb in Early Middle English: the Case of Behoove. In Studies in Middle English, edited by Jacek Fisiak. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1-21.

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