Language Change and Language Structure: Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Toril Swan (editor); Endre Mørck (editor); Olaf Jansen (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 73
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history
Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages
On comparatives in English and other languages
Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject
The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared
Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes
The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages
Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence
Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax
A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials
Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments
On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic
Subject Index