Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xi
5. The Rôle of Language in European Nationalisms 1
6. Southern Middle English hise and the Question of Pronominal Transfer in Language Contact 11
7. Flemings, Brabanders and Hollanders in the Urban Melting Pot 33
8. Germanic, Northwest-Indo-European and Pre-Indo-European Substrates 47
9. Old High German n u 57
10. Subject and Reflexive in Old Icelandic 69
11. The Evolution of Gender Assignment from OHG to NHG 81
12. Split Intransitivity in German and Dutch 97
13. Language Contact and the Relationship of Form and Meaning in English and German 115
14. Subject-object and Coordinate Asymmetries and the Syntactic Structure of German 127
15. Relativization Strategies in Early New High German 141
16. Index of Names and Authors 157
17. Index of Subjects 161