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in Present-day English only in a few set phrases and expressions of the type look someone in the eye, having overall been replaced by internal possession (IP) structures containing a premodifier in the genitive case, like those in the idiomatic translations in (1a, b).

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Cynthia L. Allen，早期英语中的与格外部占有者（牛津历时和历史语言学研究 39）。牛津：牛津大学出版社，2019 年。Pp。xvi + 284。国际标准书号 9780198832263。

这本专着是第一个大规模的基于语料库的英语外在占有 (EP) 结构的历时研究。该研究侧重于像（1）这样的结构，其中与格中的 NP（dem Kind / me，占有者）作为从句的外部参数，与该从句中的另一个 NP 建立某种语义关系（死 Haare / el dedo，占有）。这种结构在古英语和中古英语时期都有，但在现代英语中仅保留在少数固定短语和“看某人眼睛”类型的表达中，总体上已被内部占有（IP）结构所取代在属格情况下包含前置修饰语，如 (1a, b) 中的惯用翻译中的那些。