I-IV

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Martin Luther, the Beatles, and the German language 1
5. Prepositions as encoders of abstract relations 13
6. Variation between 〈Þ-〉 and 〈t-〉 in the Ormulum 21
7. An explanation for ablaut-leveling in Early New High German strong verbs 37
8. Form, function and the "perfective" in German 45
9. The origin of Scandinavian Accents I and II 61
10. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) syllabification and Germanic nominal inflection 81
11. Tempted by original syntax: Luther, Wulfila, and the Greek New Testament 97
12. Gothic relative clauses and syntactic theory 109
13. Assimilation in Germanic 147
14. Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic 163
15. German as an Object-Verb language: A unification of generative and typological approaches 217
16. The school masters as a source for the pronunciation of Early New High German 233
17. Old Saxon barred vowel 245
18. Toward an adequate characterization of relative clause extraposition in modern German 253
19. "Dative Sickness" and abstractness 283
20. Grammaticalization in spatial deixis: A case study 299
21. Kuhn's Laws and Verb-Second: On Kendall's theory of syntactic displacement in Beowulf 315
22. Problems with movement theories of Verb-Second in German: A view from a theory of coordinate ellipsis 339
23. On Old High German i-umlaut 365
24. Author Index 395
25. Subject Index 401
26. 419-420 419