Grammatical relations in change

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 56.
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Table of Contents:
  • How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories/ Werner Abraham-- "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German/ John Ole Askedal-- The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic/ Jan Terje Faarlund-- Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability/ Elly van Gelderen-- Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures/ Alice C. Harris-- Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development/ Lars Heltoft-- Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut/ Alana Johns-- Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics/ D. Gary Miller-- The loss of lexical case in Swedish/ Muriel Norde-- The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French/ Lene Schøsler-- Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/ Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.