عنوان

Grammatical relations in change

Standard Number

electronic

Title Proper

Grammatical relations in change

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

J. Benjamins

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 326 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

Studies in language companion series ;v. 65

Text of 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

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

edited by Jan Terje Faarlund

Text of 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 Sch?sler -- Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure / Annette Veerman-Leichsenring

Entry Element

، Grammar, Comparative and general

Entry Element

، Historical linguistics

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TI

AU Faarlund, Jan Terje 1943-

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