On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods

✍ Scribed by Irmengard Rauch (editor); Gerald F. Carr (editor); Robert L. Kyes (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 428
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 68
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Martin Luther, the Beatles, and the German language
Prepositions as encoders of abstract relations
Variation between <þ> and in the Ormulum
An explanation for ablaut-leveling in Early New High German strong verbs
Form, function, and the “perfective” in German
The origin of Scandinavian Accents I and II
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) syllabification and Germanic nominal inflection
Tempted by original syntax: Luther, Wulfia, and the Greek New Testament
Gothic relative clauses and syntactic theory
Assimilation in Germanic
Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic
German as an Object-Verb language: A unification of generative and typological approaches
The school masters as a source for the pronunciation of Early New High German
Old Saxon barred vowel
Toward an adequate characterization of relative clause extraposition in modern German
“Dative Sickness” and abstractness
Grammaticalization in spatial deixis: A case study
Kuhn’s Laws and Verb-Second: On Kendall’s theory of syntactic displacement in Beowulf
Problems with movement theories of Verb-Second in German: A view from a theory of coordinate ellipsis
On Old High German i-umlaut
Contrastive study of a set of German and English pragmatic particles
Index

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