Grammatical Relations in Change

Editor

Jan Terje Faarlund

| University of Oslo

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.56

Table of Contents

Preface	vii–viii
Introduction Jan Terje Faarlund	1–13
How far does semantic bleaching go: About grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories Werner Abraham	15–63
‘Oblique subjects’, structural and lexical case marking: Some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German John Ole Askedal	65–97
The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic Jan Terje Faarlund	99–135
Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in feature interpretability Elly van Gelderen	137–157
Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures Alice C. Harris	159–170
Recasting Danish subjects: Case system, word order and subject development Lars Heltoft	171–204
Ergative to accusative: Comparing evidence from Inuktitut Alana Johns	205–221
Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics D. Gary Miller	223–239
The loss of lexical case in Swedish Muriel Norde	241–272
The coding of the subject–object distinction from Latin to Modern French Lene Schøsler	273–302
Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure Annette Veerman-Leichsenring	303–322
Index	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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Carrier, Julien

2017. The ergative-antipassive alternation in Inuktitut: Analyzed in a case of new-dialect formation. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 62:04 ► pp. 661 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2001025182 | Marc record