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Grammatical relations in change /
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 th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2001.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 56. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories / Werner Abraham
- "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German / John Ole Askedal
- The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic / Jan Terje Faarlund
- Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability / Elly van Gelderen
- Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures / Alice C. Harris
- Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development / Lars Heltoft
- Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut / Alana Johns
- Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics / D. Gary Miller
- The loss of lexical case in Swedish / Muriel Norde
- The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French / Lene Schøsler
- Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure / Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.