02600nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr5004946 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 010202s2001 ne sb 001 0 eng 2001025182 1588110346 (US hb : alk. paper) 9027230587 (Eur.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70766137 P201 .G6785 2001eb 415 21 Grammatical relations in change [electronic resource] / edited by Jan Terje Faarlund. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001. viii, 326 p. Studies in language companion series ; v. 56 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Sch�sler-- Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure/ Annette Veerman-Leichsenring. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Grammar, Comparative and general. Historical linguistics. Electronic books. local Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943- ebrary, Inc. Studies in language companion series ; v. 56. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=5004946 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 1450 1450