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.


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Grammar, Comparative and general.
Historical linguistics.


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