Subjects in English: From Valency Grammar to a Constructionist Treatment of Non-Canonical Subjects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110587258)

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.

Author: Peter Uhrig
ISBN-10: 3110587254
ISBN-13: 9783110587258
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2018
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d