The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects

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Ilja A. Seržant | University of Bergen

Leonid Kulikov | Ghent University

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This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] 2013. xxv, 364 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 November 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.140

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Ilja A. Seržant, Chiara Fedriani and Leonid Kulikov | pp. ix–xxvi

Part I. Rise of non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques

Non selected dative arguments in Spanish anticausative constructions: Exploring subjecthood

Olga Fernández-Soriano and Amaya Mendikoetxea | pp. 3–34

The rise of animacy-based differential subject marking in Dutch

Helen de Hoop | pp. 35–54

The rise of oblique subjects in Russian

Hakyung Jung | pp. 55–72

Non-canonical subject marking: Genitive subjects in Classical Armenian

Daniel Kölligan | pp. 73–90

The rise of non-canonical subjects and semantic alignments in Hindi

Annie Montaut | pp. 91–118

Part II. Historical changes in constructions with non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques

Experiencers and psychological noun predicates: From Latin to Italian

Marina Benedetti | pp. 121–138

Between Finnic and Indo-European: Variation and change in the Estonian experiencer-object construction

Liina Lindström | pp. 139–162

On the historical expansion of non-canonically marked ‘subjects’ in Spanish

Chantal Melis and Marcela Flores | pp. 163–184

Part III. From non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques to canonical subjects

Subjects in Scandinavian

Jan Terje Faarlund | pp. 187–202

The me pudet construction in the history of Latin: why and how fast non-canonical subjects come and go

Chiara Fedriani | pp. 203–230

Diachrony of experiencer subject marking: Evidence from East Caucasian

Dmitry Ganenkov | pp. 231–256

Obliqueness, quasi-subjects and transitivity in Baltic and Slavonic

Axel Holvoet | pp. 257–282

Rise of canonical subjecthood

Ilja A. Seržant | pp. 283–310

Synthesis

The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects and subject-like obliques

Ilja A. Seržant | pp. 313–360

Language index | pp. 361–362

Subject index | pp. 363–364

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