On the Origin and Development of Relative Clauses in Early Germanic, with Special Emphasis on Beowulf

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. On the Morphological Analysis of German 1
5. On Two Case-Based Reanalysis Representations of the Causative Construction in Dutch 27
6. The Unaccusative Hypothesis and a Reflexive Construction in German and Dutch 39
7. On the Origin and Development of Relative Clauses in Early Germanic, with Special Emphasis on Beowulf 55
8. Out of Control 91
9. Modern Evidence for Ancient Sound Changes 103
10. Inflections and Paradigms in German Nominal Declension 115
11. Phonologization in Germanic 125
12. The Sound-Shift Revisited — or Jacob Grimm Vindicated 139
13. The Role of Semantic Restrictions in German Passive Formation 147
14. The Rise of Periphrastic Tenses in German 161
15. On the Syllabic Motivation of Inflectional Suffixes in Germanic 169
16. On a Parameter of Case Percolation 185
17. Master List of References 195
18. Index of Names 213