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. .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Grammar, Comparative and general.<br/>Historical linguistics.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P201  / .G6785 2001eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>415