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Cynthia L. Allen, Dative external possessors in Early English (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 39). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 284. ISBN 9780198832263.

This monograph is the first large-scale corpus-based diachronic study of external possession (EP) constructions in the English language. The study focuses on structures like (1), in which an NP in the dative case (dem Kind / me, the possessor), which behaves as an external argument of the clause, establishes some semantic relationship of possession with another NP in that clause (die Haare / el dedo, the possessum). This kind of structure was available in the Old and Middle English periods, but is preserved in Present-day English only in a few set phrases and expressions of the type look someone in the eye, having overall been replaced by internal possession (IP) structures containing a premodifier in the genitive case, like those in the idiomatic translations in (1a, b).