Chapter 8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the sgenitive from late Middle to Modern English - economically-driven language change?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of abbreviations xii
5. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2 The structure of the s-genitive and the of-genitive: some theoretical preliminaries 7
7. Chapter 3 Grammatical variation 21
8. Chapter 4 Factors: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relation 42
9. Chapter 5 “Variation” versus “choice” 75
10. Chapter 6 Modern English data: experimental study 108
11. Chapter 7 Historical development of the genitive variation 177
12. Chapter 8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the sgenitive from late Middle to Modern English - economically-driven language change? 235
13. Chapter 9 Summary and conclusion 265
14. Chapter 10 Appendix 278
15. Notes 293
16. Bibliography 316
17. Name index 344
18. Subject index 350