Table of Contents:
  • How far does semantic bleaching go : about grammaticalization that does not terminate in functional categories / Werner Abraham
  • "Oblique subjects," structural and lexical case marking : some thoughts on case assignment in North Germanic and German / John Ole Askedal
  • The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic / Jan Terje Faarlund
  • Towards personal subjects in English : variation in feature interpretability / Elly van Gelderen
  • Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures / Alice C. Harris
  • Recasting Danish subjects : case system, word order and subject development / Lars Heltoft
  • Ergative to accusative : comparing evidence from Inuktitut / Alana Johns
  • Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics / D. Gary Miller
  • The loss of lexical case in Swedish / Muriel Norde
  • The coding of the subject-object distinction from Latin to modern French / Lene Schøsler
  • Changes in Popolocan word order and clause structure / Annette Veerman-Leichsenring.