In a range of Indo-European languages (Romance, Albanian, Iranian, Indo-Aryan), the same
oblique case ('dative') is associated with indirect objects and with animate/definite direct …

This article addresses the categorization of Romance non-clitic pronouns as strong and
weak. It is argued that independently motivated categories are sufficient to yield distributions …

Three parameters play a role in the spread of the accusative into the functional domains of
the nominative for non-object, core arguments: semantic (the inactive nature of the …

As has been mentioned in the introduction to the present volume, there is a large body of
literature devoted to different aspects of non-canonical subjects or subjectlike obliques …

The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of
variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; …

Las oraciones de relativo predicativas, atributivas o pronominales, en las que una categoría
pronominal actúa como antecedente de la construcción, han pasado desapercibidas para …

This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the
period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that …

This paper provides a contrastive account of agent demotion in German and Polish. While
agent demotion is a relatively broad term that is often used including mere backgrounding …

The evolution from Latin into Romance is marked by the loss of case in nominal
declensions. In most Romance varieties, however, pronouns, specifically in the 1st/2nd …

Modality can be expressed through a variety of different linguistic means within and across
languages, of which one manifestation is through noncanonical case marking of the subject …