Cynthia L. Allen

Cynthia L. Allen is a Fellow Emerita at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work in the history of English morphosyntax. She is the author of two previous OUP monographs examining the relationship between case marking loss and syntactic changes in English: Case Marking and Reanalysis (1995; paperback 1999) and Genitives in Early English (2008). She is a co-founder and current editorial board member of the de Gruyter...See more

Cynthia L. Allen is a Fellow Emerita at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in recognition of her work in the history of English morphosyntax. She is the author of two previous OUP monographs examining the relationship between case marking loss and syntactic changes in English: Case Marking and Reanalysis (1995; paperback 1999) and Genitives in Early English (2008). She is a co-founder and current editorial board member of the de Gruyter Mouton series 'Studies in Language Change' and serves on the editorial board of OUP's 'Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics'. See less