Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. How far does semantic bleaching go 15
6. ‘Oblique subjects’, structural and lexical case marking 65
7. The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic 99
8. Towards personal subjects in English 137
9. Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures 159
10. Recasting Danish subjects 171
11. Ergative to accusative 205
12. Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics 223
13. The loss of lexical case in Swedish 241
14. The coding of the subject–object distinction from Latin to Modern French 273
15. Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure 303
16. Index 323