Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Grammatical Relations in Change
-
Edited by:
Jan Terje Faarlund
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
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.
Reviews
Claire Bowern, Harvard University, in Language 80(1), 2004:
A useful summary of the issues and treatments of some interesting problems in historical syntax.
A useful summary of the issues and treatments of some interesting problems in historical syntax.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Prelim pages
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Preface
vii -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
How far does semantic bleaching go
15 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
‘Oblique subjects’, structural and lexical case marking
65 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic
99 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Towards personal subjects in English
137 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures
159 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Recasting Danish subjects
171 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Ergative to accusative
205 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics
223 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The loss of lexical case in Swedish
241 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The coding of the subject–object distinction from Latin to Modern French
273 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure
303 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
323
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 21, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9789027298041
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
326
eBook ISBN:
9789027298041
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
