The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects / edited by Ilja Seržant, University of Bergen ; Leonid Kulikov, Ghent University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rise of non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques -- Non selected dative arguments in Spanish anticausative constructions : exploring subjecthood / Olga Fernández-Soriano & Amaya Mendikoetxea -- The rise of animacy-based differential subject marking in Dutch / Helen de Hoop -- The rise of oblique subjects in Russian / Hakyung Jung -- Non-canonical subject marking : genitive subjects in Classical Armenian / Daniel Kölligan -- The rise of non-canonical subjects and semantic alignments in Hindi / Annie Montaut -- Historical changes in constructions with non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques -- Experiencers and psychological noun predicates : from Latin to Italian / Marina Benedetti -- Between Finnic and Indo-European : variation and change in the Estonian experiencer-object construction / Liina Lindström -- On the historical expansion of non-canonically marked 'subjects' in Spanish / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores -- From non-canonical subjects or subject-like obliques to canonical subjects -- Subjects in scandinavian / Jan Terje Faarlund -- The me pudet construction in the history of Latin : why and how fast non-canonical subjects come and go / Chiara Fedriani -- Diachrony of experiencer subject marking : evidence from East Caucasian / Dmitry Ganenkov -- Obliqueness, quasi-subjects and transitivity in Baltic and Slavonic / Axel Holvoet -- Rise of canonical subjeethood / Ilja A. Seržant -- Synthesis -- The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects and subject-like obliques / Ilja A. Seržant -- Language index -- Subject index.

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In this paper I have examined several instances in which an oblique constituent acquires canonical subject marking, i.e. nominative case and verbal agreement (in an accusative language). These instances show that an oblique constituent may acquire subject coding properties without being beforehand endowed with subject behavioural properties, if two requirements are met: (i) this oblique constituent must exhibit a considerable functional overlap with the prototypical subject in the given language and, (ii) there must be either no canonically case-marked subject in the construction at all, or th.

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