03869nam 2200601 a 450 991096073290332120200520144314.09786612162381978128216238912821623819789027298041902729804110.1075/slcs.56(CKB)1000000000552924(OCoLC)70766137(CaPaEBR)ebrary5004946(MiAaPQ)EBC622631(DE-B1597)720509(DE-B1597)9789027298041(EXLCZ)99100000000055292420010202d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGrammatical relations in change /edited by Jan Terje Faarlund1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjaminsc20011 online resource (337 p.)Studies in language companion series ;v. 56Six 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 1999.9781588110343 1588110346 9789027230584 9027230587 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Schsler--Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.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 ;v. 56.Grammar, Comparative and generalHistorical linguisticsGrammar, Comparative and general.Historical linguistics.415Faarlund Jan Terje1943-186858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960732903321Grammatical relations in change4344870UNINA