Ilja A. Seržant & Leonid Kulikov. The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. xxv, 364 pp.

Reviewed by

Cynthia L. Allen

Published online: 15 October 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.32.2.05all

References (7)

References

Allen, Cynthia L. 1995. On doing as you please. In Andreas Jucker (ed.), Historical pragmatics (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 351), 275–308. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cole, Peter, Wayne Harbert, Gabriella Hermon & S. N. Sridhar. 1980. The acquisition of subjecthood. Language 561. 719–743.

Haspelmath, Martin. 2010. The Behavior-before-Coding principle in syntactic change. In Franck Floricic (ed.), Mélanges Denis Creissels, 493–506. Paris: Presses de L’École Normale Supérieure.

. 2001. The European linguistic area: Standard Average European. In Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible (eds.), Language typology and language universals: An international handbook, vol. 21 (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 20/Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Bd 201), 1492–1510. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Keenan, Edward L. 1976. Towards a universal definition of subject. In Charles N. Li (ed.), Subject and topic, 303–333. New York: Academic Press.

Miura, Ayumi. 2014. Middle English verbs of emotion and impersonal constructions: Verb meaning and syntax in diachrony (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vennemann, Theo. 2002. On the rise of ‘Celtic’ syntax in Middle English. In Peter J. Lucas & Angela M. Lucas (eds.), Middle English from tongue to text: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text , held at Dublin, Ireland , 1–4 July 1999 (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 41), 205–234. Bern: Peter Lang.

Ilja A. Seržant & Leonid Kulikov. The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. xxv, 364 pp.

Ilja A. Seržant & Leonid Kulikov. The diachronic typology of non-canonical subjects [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. xxv, 364 pp.