The rise of Dative Substitution in the history of Icelandic: A diachronic construction grammar account

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-79

  Barddal, Jóhanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diachronic Construction Grammar; Idiosyncratic vs. thematic case marking; Lexical semantics; Oblique subjects; Productivity; Syntactic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049395155     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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