Oblique subjects in Germanic : their status, history and reconstruction / Jóhanna Barðdal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barðdal, Jóhanna, author.

Series:

Studies in Language Change [SLC] Series

Studies in Language Change [SLC] Series ; v.21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Languages, Modern--Word order.

Languages, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-107801-9