Introduction -- Theory -- Methodological considerations -- Clausal subjects in active clauses -- Analysis of subjects in passive clauses -- Analysis of subjects in copular clauses -- Extraposition -- Existentials -- Conclusions and perspectives for syntactic models
Summary
"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
Notes
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343) and index
