Items for "oblique subjects"

Construction-specific properties of syntactic subjects in Icelandic and German

This paper discusses the syntactic similarities and differences in the behavior of subject-like obliques in the Obl–V–(XP) construction in Icelandic and German...

Keywords: Icelandic, German, oblique subjects, argument structure, subject tests, syntactic relations vs. syntactic roles, Radical Construction Grammar, frequency, schematicity