The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison

Barðdal, Jóhanna; Eythórsson, Thórhallur

doi:10.1075/cilt.305.19bar

In:Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007
Edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305] 2009
► pp. 179–193

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The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison

Jóhanna Barðdal

Thórhallur Eythórsson

Published online: 16 July 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.305.19bar

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