TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uhrig,Peter
TI  - Subjects in English: From Valency Grammar to a Constructionist Treatment of Non-Canonical Subjects 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110587258
U1  - 400 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - (Clausal) Subjects
KW  - Existentials
KW  - Extraposition
KW  - Valency Theory
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Abbreviations, symbols and frequently used labels --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Theory --; 3. Methodological Considerations --; 4. Clausal Subjects in active clauses --; 5. Analysis of subjects in passive clauses --; 6. Analysis of subjects in copular clauses --; 7. Extraposition --; 8. Existentials --; 9. Conclusions and perspectives for syntactic models --; References --; Index --; Appendices; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110589801
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110589801
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ER  -