Grammatical Relations in Change
Editor
| University of Oslo
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Preface
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vii–viii
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1–13
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15–63
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65–97
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99–135
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137–157
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159–170
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171–204
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205–221
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223–239
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241–272
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273–302
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303–322
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Index
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323–326
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“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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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General