Chris McCully, The sound structure of English: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 233.

Cynthia Allen, Genitives in Early English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 354. ISBN 978-0-19-921668-0.

“…1982; Koike 2004;Nunnally 1985;Rosenbach 2002;Taylor 1996;Wit 1997), in that it is not simply an historical study of the origin and development nor a collection of self-contained grammatical descriptions of the various genitive constructions available to the Early English writer (or possibly speaker). Rather it is a comprehensive study of all attested (major as well as minor) morphological genitive strategies from Old English to Early Modern English, which the author investigates keeping in mind one question: how and whether changes in the syntax of nominal phrases in the genitive case in Old English (and then in ME) can be related to other grammatical changes.…”

“…Genitive constructions involving a possessive pronoun, such as the Dutch Jan z'n fiets, are traditionally (Stahl 1927;Behagel 1932), but also more recently (cf. Ramat 1986a; de Wit 1997;Delsing 1998;Weerman & de Wit 1999;Strunk 2004;Haegeman 2004), considered to correspond to the same pattern in every Germanic language, having the same origin and development. Any possible present differentiation would represent a different development stage.…”