Johanna Barddal

TL;DR: In this paper, subject-like obliques of the impersonal construction show behavioral properties of syntactic subjects in Old Germanic, contrary to standard assumptions (Cole et al. 1980).

TL;DR: This dissertation addresses the question of what the function of morphological case is in Icelandic, revealing that not only are the nominative and accusative productive in Icelandic but also the dative.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the syntactic status of the oblique subject-like NPs has not changed at all from object status to subject status, contra standard claims in the literature, and provide evidence for their subject status in Modern Icelandic and Faroese.

TL;DR: The bulk of the chapter proposes ways in which a constructional perspective/theory allows us to address some of these perceived problems with the study of diachronic syntax, hence providing a research context for the individual studies published in this volume.