Licensing, blocking, and English pronoun case
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University of Canterbury. School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics
University of Canterbury. Linguistics
University of Canterbury. Linguistics
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2005
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Quinn, H.
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This paper examines diachronic changes in the form-meaning mapping of English pronoun case forms. I propose that the increasing influence of surface position on pronoun case is a by-product of a shift in the licensing of arguments during the Middle English period, and I argue that the direction of the observed changes follows the predictions of the Blocking Principle.
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Quinn, H. (2005) Licensing, blocking, and English pronoun case. Madison, WI, USA: ICHL 2005 - The XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 2 Aug 2005.