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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Inhalt

Preface: The soul of Germanic linguistics, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr; The putative strengthening of glides in Gothic, Charles M. Barrack; Latin influence on Germanic word order - a discussion of Behaghel's theory, Diana Chirita; Ambysillabicity in Old English - a contrary view, Robert D. Fulk; Machds, dab-ds wegkummds! The mystery of inflected complementarizers, Michael Getty; On the Old High German Medienverschiebung, Kurt Gustav; Underspecification and the Old High German monophtongization, Wayner Harbert; The phrase structure of partitives in High German, Robert G. Hoeing; The reaction on monosyllable to apocope in German dialects, Anatoly Liberman; Aspects of 'headedness switching' in German, Dutch, and Danish verb complexes, Erik J. Macki; Agreement and null subjects in Germanic and Romance, Enrique Mallen; Articulatory phonology as a tool for explanation in historical phonology - the case of stop epenthesis in Germanic, B. Richard Page; The Germanic i-umlaut revisited, Herbert Penzel; How Indo-european is Germanic? Edgar Polome; Bag V - PC German, Irmengard Rauch; Thematic hierarchies and the argument-structure-syntax interface - evidence from germanic ditransitive verbs, Rex A. Sprouse; Against the notion 'metrical grammar', Robert P. Stockwell, Donka Minkova; Two-domain conditionals - verb-first, integration, politeness, Ilona Vandergriff; Coordinate ellipsis in German - old problems from new (minimalist) perspective, John te Velde; The development of reduplicating verbs in Germanic, Theo Vennemann; Causative psych-verbs in the history of English, Heide Waltz.