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Cynthia Allen is an Emerita Fellow at the Australian National University, having served as a Reader in the Linguistics Applied Linguistics Program, within the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences until her retirement. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and has directed the ANU's Centre for Research on Language Change. Her research focuses on the history of English syntax, syntactic theory, and the relationship between loss of case marking and the history of adnominal possessive constructions in English and Germanic languages. She investigates the disappearance of external (dative) possessors in English and related matters concerning the development of the definite article in English. Her research has expanded to include the effects of contact with Norse and Celtic languages on the syntax of Old and Early Middle English. Cynthia also runs an Anglo-Saxon reading group weekly during term time.
Australian National University • Canberra, ACT, Australia
Served as a Reader in the Linguistics Applied Linguistics Program, focusing on historical linguistics and language change.
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