This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discours

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or t

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal m

This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with c

Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predic