Thematic hierarchies and the argument-structure-syntax interface: Evidence from Germanic ditransitive verbs

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Preface: The soul of Germanic linguistics IX
5. The putative strengthening of glides in Gothic 1
6. Latin influence on German word order: A discussion of Behaghel's theory 9
7. Ambisyllabicity in Old English: A contrary view 29
8. Machds, daß-ds wegkummds! The mystery of inflected complementizers 47
9. On the Old High German Medienverschiebung 63
10. Underspecification and the Old High German monophthongization 71
11. The phrase structure of partitives in High German 87
12. The reaction of monosyllables to apocope in German dialects 99
13. Aspects of "headedness switching" in German, Dutch, and Danish verb complexes 135
14. Agreement and null subjects in Germanic and Romance 155
15. Articulatory phonology as a tool for explanation in historical phonology: The case of stop epenthesis in Germanic 175
16. The Germanic i-umlaut revisited 189
17. How Indo-European is Germanic? 197
18. BAG V: PC German 207
19. Thematic hierarchies and the argument-structure-syntax interface: Evidence from Germanic ditransitive verbs 227
20. Against the notion "metrical grammar" 243
21. Two-domain conditionals: Verb-first, integration, politeness 257
22. Coordinate ellipsis in German: Old problems from a new (minimalist) perspective 275
23. The development of reduplicating verbs in Germanic 297
24. Causative psych-verbs in the history of English 337
25. Index 345