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Grammatical Relations in Change
Edited by Jan Terje Faarlund
University of Oslo
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.
Contents
Werner Abraham: How far does semantic bleaching go: About 
grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories
John Ole Askedal: ‘Oblique subjects’, structural and lexical case marking: 
Some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German
Jan Terje Faarlund: The notion of oblique subject and its status in the 
history of Icelandic
Elly van Gelderen: Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in 
feature interpretability
Alice C.Harris: Focus and universal principles governing simplification of 
cleft  structures Lars Heltoft: Recasting Danish subjects: Case system,word 
order and subject development
Alana Johns: Ergative to accusative: Comparing evidence from Inuktitut
D.Gary Miller: Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics
Muriel Norde: The loss of lexical case in Swedish
Lene Schøsler: The coding of the subject  object distinction from Latin to 
Modern French
Annette Veerman-Leichsenring: Changes in Popolocan word order and clause 
structure

Studies in Language Companion Series,56
2001.Hb viii,322 pp.+index 90 272 3058 7 NLG 220.00 1 58811 034 6 USD 100.00


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Professor Jan Terje Faarlund
Universitetet i Oslo
Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap
Postboks 1013 Blindern
N-0315 Oslo (Norway)

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