Grammatical relations in change / edited by Jan Terje Faarlund.

• Superior document: Studies in language companion series ; v. 56
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in language companion series ; v. 56.
• Physical Description: viii, 326 p.
• Notes: 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.
• Other title: How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories/; "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German/; The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic/; Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability/; Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures/; Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development/; Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut/; Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics/; The loss of lexical case in Swedish/; The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French/; Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1588110346 (US hb : alk. paper); 9027230587 (Eur.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jan Terje Faarlund.