Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical rela

This monograph deals with argument drop in the German prefield and it presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic dropp

Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these prope

This book investigates various aspects of the distribution of nominal arguments, and in particular the cross-linguistic variation that can be found among the Ge