It is generally assumed that the change of "me dreamed" to "I dreamed is an instance of syntactic reanalysis. But another possibility is that "me dreamed" was a construction that emphasized the experience and this existed along side of a more active construction "I dreamed. The experiencer construction was more common in early english but became ousted in the course of history in favour of the active varient. There no reanalysis occured. See Allen (1986) on "reconsidering the history of like"
It is generally assumed that the change of "me dreamed" to "I dreamed is an instance of syntactic reanalysis. But another possibility is that "me dreamed" was a construction that emphasized the experience and this existed along side of a more active construction "I dreamed. The experiencer construction was more common in early english but became ousted in the course of history in favour of the active varient. There no reanalysis occured. See Allen (1986) on "reconsidering the history of like"