Grammatical relations in change
Grammatical relations in change [electronic resource] /
edited by Jan Terje Faarlund.
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.
- viii, 326 p.
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 56 .
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 56. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories/ "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German/ The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic/ Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability/ Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures/ Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development/ Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut/ Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics/ The loss of lexical case in Swedish/ The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French/ Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/ Werner Abraham-- John Ole Askedal-- Jan Terje Faarlund-- Elly van Gelderen-- Alice C. Harris-- Lars Heltoft-- Alana Johns-- D. Gary Miller-- Muriel Norde-- Lene Schøsler-- Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Historical linguistics.
Electronic books.
P201 / .G6785 2001eb
415
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories/ "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German/ The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic/ Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability/ Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures/ Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development/ Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut/ Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics/ The loss of lexical case in Swedish/ The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French/ Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/ Werner Abraham-- John Ole Askedal-- Jan Terje Faarlund-- Elly van Gelderen-- Alice C. Harris-- Lars Heltoft-- Alana Johns-- D. Gary Miller-- Muriel Norde-- Lene Schøsler-- Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Historical linguistics.
Electronic books.
P201 / .G6785 2001eb
415