Jan Terje Faarlund
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Terje Faarlund plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124
Title
Grammatical Relations in Change
Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
2014 Subjects and objects in Germanic and Romance Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 295–312 | Article
The syntactic functions of subject and object are usually characterized by a certain semantic role and/or discourse function (information structure). In a “free word order” language, the position of a phrase at main clause level tends to be determined by its discourse function, while retaining its… read more
2013 The pro cycle Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 257–284 | Article
The argument in this paper is based on the premise that null subjects are pronouns with no phonological substance, called pro, which may receive case and theta-role. Null subject languages may differ as to the referential properties of pro, in some languages pro may have specific reference, in… read more
2013 Subjects in Scandinavian The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 187–202 | Article
One of the most fundamental changes from Old Norse to the modern Mainland Scandinavian languages is the introduction of the obligatory subject requirement. While Old Norse allowed subjectless sentences of various kinds, present-day Mainland Scandinavian requires an overt subject in finite sentences. read more
2008 A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 221–244 | Article
2007 Parameterization and change in non-finite complementation Diachronica 24:1, pp. 57–80 | Article
Through the history of Nordic and Norwegian, the infinitive marker has undergone several syntactic and phonological changes. This article discusses the syntactic changes in terms of functionalist and generativist grammaticalization theory. The article starts with a brief review of the origin and… read more
2007 Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 21–31 | Article
2003 The grammaticalization of movement: Word order change in Nordic Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 129–142 | Article
2003 Review of Hróarsdóttir (2000): Word Order Change in Icelandic. From OV to VO Studies in Language 27:1, pp. 186–193 | Review
2003 The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 311–325 | Article
2001 The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.), pp. 99–135 | Article
The term ‘oblique subject’ is used in recent descriptions of Icelandic about NPs that behave syntactically like subjects without having nominative case. Data in support of such an analysis can easily be found in Modern Icelandic. Various linguists have assumed that also Old Icelandic has oblique… read more
2001 Introduction Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Miscellaneous
2000 Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, Sornicola, Rosanna, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), pp. 119–132 | Chapter
2000 Review of Lass (1997): Historical linguistics and language change Studies in Language 24:1, pp. 175–187 | Review
1990 Case assignment and NP movement in the history of Scandinavian Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 95–106 | Article
1988 A typology of subjects Studies in Syntactic Typology, Hammond, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth (eds.), pp. 193–208 | Article
1985 Pragmatics in Diachronic Syntax Studies in Language 9:3, pp. 363–393 | Article
