Allen Cynthia L. Genitives in Early English. Typology and Evidence

Oxford University Press, 2008. — 320 p.This book is about a topic in the history of English, but it takes the linguist’s point of view that as a human language, the English of any stage is subject to the universals of human languages and (in principle at least) amenable to linguistic analysis. It seems advisable to set this point of view out clearly at the outset, because it ismy hope that besides those who would identify themselves
as diachronic syntacticians, the book will also be of interest to scholars who are not interested in linguistic theory in general but are very much interested in what English was like in earlier periods, and how it has changed.