subjecthood

English

Etymology

From subject +‎ -hood.

Noun

subjecthood (uncountable)

The condition or state of being a subject.
These gendered constructions of subjecthood are explored in more detail in Chapter two of this book.
(linguistics) The condition or state of a word or expression, such as a noun phrase, being the subject of a sentence.
- 1980 December, Peter Cole, Wayne Harbert, Gabriella Hermon, S. N. Sridhar, “The Acquisition of Subjecthood”, in Language‎^[1], volume 56, number 4, pages 719–743:
  We are especially concerned here with the question of whether certain kinds of properties associated with subjecthood are acquired prior to other kinds of properties.
- 1991, William Croft, “Syntactic Methodology and Universal Grammar”, in Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations, →ISBN, page 11:
  One of the best-known examples of this method of argumentation applied to problems of universal grammar is the analysis of ergativity and subjecthood in Anderson (1976), a paper notable for its attention to data from a large number of languages and its continuing importance.
(political science) The condition or state of a person being a subject of a nation or a monarch.
- 1998, Christopher Vincenzi, “From Subjecthood to Citizenship”, in Crown Powers, Subjects and Citizens, →ISBN, page 301:
  Subjecthood emphasizes obedience. Citizenship, on the other hand, recognizes moral obligations to other members of the community and emphasizes responsiveness and participation.
- 2010, Sukanya Banerjee, “Introduction”, in Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire, →ISBN, page 25:
  But that should not be confused or conflated with citizenship, for, according to Jebb, "citizenship includes subjecthood, but subjecthood does not include citizenship."

Meronyms

(of a nation): citizenship