Uhrig Peter. Subjects in English: From a Valency Grammar to a Constructionist Treatment of Non-Canonical Subjects

Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 531 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 321). — ISBN10: 3110587254, 13 978-3110587258.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.