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Germanic Linguistics
Syntactic and diachronic
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil Jacobs, Edgar Polomé, and David Fertig).
The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the Verschärfung to the Twaddellian view of umlaut. Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.
The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the Verschärfung to the Twaddellian view of umlaut. Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137] 1996. viii, 192 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- ForewordRosina L. Lippi-Green and Joseph C. Salmons | p. vii
- German standard pronouns and non-standard pronominal clitics Typological corollariesWerner Abraham | p. 1
- The epistemic use of German and English modalsSarah M.B. Fagan | p. 15
- Arguments for two verb-second clause types in Germanic: A comparison of yiddish and GermanJohn R. te Velde | p. 35
- On the syntax of Dutch erIsabella Barbier | p. 65
- The attributive genitive in the history of GermanRuth Lunt Lanouette | p. 85
- The verschärfung as feature spreadGarry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson | p. 103
- Germanic Class IV and V preteritsMary K. Niepokuj | p. 121
- Germanic in early roman timesEdgar C. Polomé | p. 137
- Toward a phonological description of l Palatalization in Central YiddishNeil G. Jacobs | p. 149
- Phonology, Orthography and the Umlaut puzzleDavid Fertig | p. 169
- Subject index | pp. 185–186
- Language index | pp. 187–188
- Authors index | pp. 189–192