Chapter 11. What is a subject

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Areal/geneological investigations
5. Chapter 2. Non-nominative and depersonalized subjects in the Balkans 23
6. Chapter 3. Affective constructions in Tsezic languages 55
7. Part II. Synchronic investigations
8. Chapter 4. A macrorole approach to dative subjects 85
9. Chapter 5. Dative case and oblique subjects 115
10. Part III. Diachronic investigations
11. Chapter 6. Word order as a subject test in Old Icelandic 135
12. Chapter 7. The diachrony of non-canonical subjects in Northwest Semitic 155
13. Chapter 8. Case marking of predicative possession in Vedic 181
14. Chapter 9. Accusative sickness? 213
15. Afterword
16. Chapter 10. Forty years in the search of a/the subject 241
17. Chapter 11. What is a subject 257
18. Language index 275
19. Subject Index 277