TY - GEN T1 - Subjects in English : from valency grammar to a constructionist treatment of non-canonical subjects T2 - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; A1 - Uhrig, Peter LA - English PP - Berlin ; Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1050870930 AB - "The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be."--Page 4 of cover OP - 349 NO - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013) under the title: Aspects of English subjects - a valency-based analysis of item-specificity with a focus on clausal subjects. CN - PE1201 .U47 2018eb SN - 9783110589818 SN - 3110589818 SN - 9783110589801 SN - 9783110587289 SN - 3110587289 SN - 311058980X SN - 9783110587258 SN - 3110587254 KW - English language : Noun phrase. KW - English language : Clauses. KW - English language : Dependency grammar. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : General. KW - English language : Clauses KW - English language : Dependency grammar KW - English language : Noun phrase KW - (Clausal) Subjects. KW - Existentials. KW - Extraposition. KW - Valency Theory. ER -