I-XVI

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVI I
2. Selected Roots: History of Linguistic Ideas
3. Studies of English Language and Literature versus Romance Philology in Germany in the Nineteenth Century 3
4. E. A. Sonnenschein’s New English Grammar 15
5. Reconstructing Seasons Past: Linguistic Change
6. The Verb speak in Shakespeare’s Plays 33
7. Remarks on the Structure of the Verbal Complex in Early 17th Century German 53
8. Language Change in Modern German: Feminism and Systematic Gap Production 67
9. Pronunciation Rules and Improper Sound Change 77
10. Aspects of the Development of the Imperative in Early Modern English 93
11. Informal Sources in the History of English and German 107
12. On the Historical Development of Greek/Grecian 117
13. Aspects of Growth: Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
14. Product and Process in the Phonology of Foreign Accent: Towards a Linguistic Model of Second Language Sound Acquisition 125
15. What Can We Learn from the Case of Pitcairnese? 143
16. Variation and Language Acquisition: Psammetichus Revisited 157
17. Language Teaching in Utopia: A Retrospective View 171
18. The Grammar of ‘Missing Arguments’ in Early Child English 179
19. Branches and Twigs: Within and Across Levels of the Grammar
20. Phonology and Spelling
21. The Phonologies of the English Auxiliary System 209
22. Spelling in Society: Forms and Variants, Uses and Users 221
23. Semantics and Pragmatics
24. What about How about? Or: The Non-Synonymy of How about and What about 237
25. Linguistic and Stylistic Considerations Affecting Restrictive Relative Clauses in Spoken and Written English 257
26. On the Tension between Properties and Propositional Functions 273
27. Sein und Raum: Bemerkungen zur lokalistischen Interpretation des Verbs sein in Heideggers Einführung in die Metaphysik 297
28. The English Conditional – Tense, Aspect or Mood? 307
29. Syntax
30. Non-Configurational Properties in a Configurational Language: The Case of English 339
31. On Topicalization and Inversion 375
32. From Discourse to Syntax: The Case of Concessive Conditionals 423
33. English Nominal Gerund Phrases as Noun Phrases with Verb Phrase Heads 435
34. The Category of Invariant alles in Wh-Clauses: On Syntactic Quantifiers vs. Quantifying Particles in German 465
35. Revisiting -ing -ing 493
36. New Seasons
37. Computational Linguistics: “A Personal View” 507
38. List of Contributors 519