| Description |
viii, 326 p. |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series ; v. 56 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 56.
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| Note |
Six of the contributions were originally presented at a workshop held during the 14th International Conference of Historical Linguistics which was held in Vancouver, B.C., in 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories/ Werner Abraham-- "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German/ John Ole Askedal-- The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic/ Jan Terje Faarlund-- Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability/ Elly van Gelderen-- Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures/ Alice C. Harris-- Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development/ Lars Heltoft-- Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut/ Alana Johns-- Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics/ D. Gary Miller-- The loss of lexical case in Swedish/ Muriel Norde-- The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French/ Lene Schsler-- Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/ Annette Veerman-Leichsenring. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Historical linguistics.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1588110346 (US hb : alk. paper) |
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9027230587 (Eur.) |
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