Non-Canonical Subject Marking in Germanic Vernaculars

This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes will be compared, using computational phylogenetic methods, to reveal fluctuations in the construction’s historical productivity, hence providing basis for computational modeling of the prehistory of noncanonically case-marked subjects in Proto-Germanic.