Chapter 10
Forty years in the search of a/the subject
The present short discussion piece presents my personal view of the studies of the topics related to the notion of subject, oblique subject and non-canonical subject marking over the last years. The presentation is of course subjective insofar as it reflects my range of interests in this field. Equally subjective is the selected timeframe mentioned in the title (“forty years”) which is meant to refer to the time when the notion of subject has been in the spotlight of typological interest.
Article outline
- The quest for the subject
- Diachronic issues and their theoretical consequences
- Subject properties, biases and competing motivations
- A note on the oblique subject controversy
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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