The papers in this volume examine the current role of
grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i)
through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii)
through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken
together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of
how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful
notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object
properties are distributed among various functional projections,
converging sometimes in particular languages.