Grammatical relations in change

Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943- (Added Author).

Summary: The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages dealt with include.

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ISBN: 9027230587
ISBN: 9789027230584
ISBN: 1588110346
ISBN: 9781588110343
ISBN: 9027298041
ISBN: 9789027298041
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages).
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	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.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.