Focus on Germanic TypologyWerner Abraham Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic Jóhanna Barddal The semantics of the impersonal construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: beyond thematic roles Cedric Boeckx und Kleanthes K. Grohmann Left dislocation in Germanic Jac C. Conradie Verb sequence and placement: Afrikaans and Dutch compared Hartmut Czepluch ((Sterbezeichen)) Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German Molly Diesing The upper functional domain in Yiddish Bridget Drinka Präteritumschwund: evidence for areal difussion Werner Abraham The European demise of the simple past and the emergence of the periphrastic perfect: Areal diffusion or natural, autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation? László Molnárfi Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic Rolf Thieroff The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages |
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Agree and agreement evidence from Germanic | 61 |
beyond thematic roles | 105 |
Left dislocation in Germanic | 139 |
Afrikaans and Dutch compared | 153 |
Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German | 169 |
The upper functional domain in Yiddish | 195 |
evidence for areal diffusion | 211 |
areal diffusion or natural autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation? | 241 |
Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic | 273 |
The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages | 315 |
List of authors | 359 |
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ABRAHAM & CONRADIE adverbs Afrikaans analysis areal argument auxiliary BARÐDAL BOECKX calque Cambridge CARDINALETTI & STARKE CHOMSKY clause clitic complement contrast Danelaw dative deficient pronouns derivational destressing dialects discussion distinction Dutch element example fact Faroese finite verb focus French future preterite gender Germanic languages gezien gisteren grammatical grammatical gender grammaticalization Icelandic Icelandic and German impersonal construction impersonal predicates indicative inflection inherent reflexive left dislocation lexical linguistic linking marker marking Middle English modal MOLNÁRFI morphological movement nominative nouns object Old English Old Norse passive past participle periphrastic periphrastic perfect phonologically position present preterite pronominal properties prosodic reference referential relevant semantic sentence SIGURÐSSON speakers Sprachbund stress strong pronouns structure Swedish syntactic syntax tense thematic thematic roles THIEROFF THRÁINSSON tion tive topic trigger typology verb classes verbal weak pronouns WERNER West Germanic West Germanic languages Wh-movement wh-phrase word order würde Yiddish