Grammatical relations in change
By: edited by Jan Terje Faarlund.
Contributors: Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943-
Series: Studies in language companion series ;; v. 56
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general.; Historical linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Six of the contributions were originally presented at a workshop held during the 14th International Conference of Historical Linguistics which was held in Vancouver, B.C., in 1999.
Table of contents: title: How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories / Werner Abraham; title: "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German / John Ole Askedal; title: The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic / Jan Terje Faarlund; title: Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability / Elly van Gelderen; title: Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures / Alice C. Harris; title: Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development / Lars Heltoft; title: Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut / Alana Johns; title: Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics / D. Gary Miller; title: The loss of lexical case in Swedish / Muriel Norde; title: The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French / Lene Schøsler; title: Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure / Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.