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    <publisher>J. Benjamins</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2001</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Jan Terje Faarlund.</note>
  <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.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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