Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Rise of non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques
6. Non selected dative arguments in Spanish anticausative constructions 3
7. The rise of animacy-based differential subject marking in Dutch 35
8. The rise of oblique subjects in Russian 55
9. Non-canonical subject marking 73
10. The rise of non-canonical subjects and semantic alignments in Hindi 91
11. Part II. Historical changes in constructions with non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques
12. Experiencers and psychological noun predicates 121
13. Between Finnic and Indo-European 139
14. On the historical expansion of non-canonically marked ‘subjects’ in Spanish 163
15. Part III. From non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques to canonical subjects
16. Subjects in Scandinavian 187
17. The me pudet construction in the history of Latin 203
18. Diachrony of experiencer subject marking 231
19. Obliqueness, quasi-subjects and transitivity in Baltic and Slavonic 257
20. Rise of canonical subjecthood 283
21. Synthesis
22. The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects and subject-like obliques 313
23. Language index 361
24. Subject index 363