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Oblique Subjects in Germanic : Their Status, History and Reconstruction / Jóhanna Barðdal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 21Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 389 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111077840
  • 9783111078076
  • 9783111078014
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P295 .B373 2023
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is a subject? -- 3 Alternating Dat-Nom / Nom-Dat predicates -- 4 Oblique subjects in Early Germanic: Gothic, Old / Middle High German, Old / Middle English, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish -- 5 Reconstructing oblique subjects for Proto- Germanic -- 6 Modern German: An anomaly? -- 7 Synthesis -- References -- Name Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index
Summary: Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is a subject? -- 3 Alternating Dat-Nom / Nom-Dat predicates -- 4 Oblique subjects in Early Germanic: Gothic, Old / Middle High German, Old / Middle English, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish -- 5 Reconstructing oblique subjects for Proto- Germanic -- 6 Modern German: An anomaly? -- 7 Synthesis -- References -- Name Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index

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Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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