Download or read book Subjects in English written by Peter Uhrig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.