Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. From Afrikaans to Zurich German 1
4. Part I — Studies on predication
5. The Nom/Acc alternation in Germanic 13
6. Shape conservation, Holmberg’s generalization and predication 51
7. Quirky verb-second in Afrikaans 89
8. Nominal arguments and nominal predicates 115
9. Part II — Studies on the (pro)nominal system
10. Pronominal noun phrases, number specifications, and null nouns 143
11. Toward a syntactic theory of number neutralisation 181
12. Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis 201
13. Part III — Historical studies
14. Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic 237
15. Loss of residual “head final” orders and remnant fronting in Late Middle English 263
16. Syntactic sources of word-formation processes 299
17. Index 329