Non-canonically case-marked subjects : the Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Ghent University, Na'ama Pat-El, The University of Texas, Austin, Stephen Mark Carey, University of Minnesota, Morris.
Based on papers presented at a 2012 conference held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Areal/geneological investigations. Non-nominative and depersonalized subjects in the Balkans: areality vs. genealogy / Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph -- Affective constructions in Tsezic languages / Bernard Comrie, Diana Forker and Zaira Khalilova -- Synchronic investigations. A macrorole approach to dative subjects / Patrick Farrell and Beatriz Willgohs -- Dative case and oblique subjects / Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. -- Diachronic investigations. Word order as a subject test in Old Icelandic / Jóhannes G. Jónsson -- The diachrony of non-canonical subjects in Northwest Semitic / Na'ama Pat-El -- Case marking of predicative possession in Vedic: the genitive, the dative, the locative / Serena Danesi and Jóhanna Barðdal -- Accusative sickness?: a brief epidemic in the history of German / Tonya Kim Dewey and Stephen Mark Carey -- Afterword. Forty years in the search of a/the subject / Andrej Malchukov -- What is a subject: the nature and validity of subject tests / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson.
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