Grammatical Relations in Change
Editor
The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages dealt with include Old English, Mainland Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and other Germanic languages, Latin, French and other Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and Popolocan. This book provides an opportunity to compare different theoretical approaches to similar phenomena in different languages and language families.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 56] 2001. viii, 326 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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IntroductionJan Terje Faarlund | pp. 1–13
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How far does semantic bleaching go: About grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categoriesWerner Abraham | pp. 15–63
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‘Oblique subjects’, structural and lexical case marking: Some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and GermanJohn Ole Askedal | pp. 65–97
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The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of IcelandicJan Terje Faarlund | pp. 99–135
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Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in feature interpretabilityElly van Gelderen | pp. 137–157
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Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structuresAlice C. Harris | pp. 159–170
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Recasting Danish subjects: Case system, word order and subject developmentLars Heltoft | pp. 171–204
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Ergative to accusative: Comparing evidence from InuktitutAlana Johns | pp. 205–221
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Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deonticsD. Gary Miller | pp. 223–239
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The loss of lexical case in SwedishMuriel Norde | pp. 241–272
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The coding of the subject–object distinction from Latin to Modern FrenchLene Schøsler | pp. 273–302
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Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structureAnnette Veerman-Leichsenring | pp. 303–322
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Index | pp. 323–326
“A useful summary of the issues and treatments of some interesting problems in historical syntax.”
Claire Bowern, Harvard University, in Language 80(1), 2004
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