Studies in West Frisian Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Recent trends in Frisian linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical linguistics -- 3. The study of grammar -- 4. Dialectology -- 5. Sociology of language -- 6. Sociolinguistics -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Why Old Frisian is really Middle Frisian -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Turning point 1800 -- 1.2 Turning point 1400 -- 1.3 Old Frisian -- 2. Phonology: Changes in syllable structure -- 2.1 Vowels in unstressed syllables -- 2.2 Vowel lengthening and consonant degemination -- 3. Morphology: Inflectional systems -- 3.1 Verbal inflection -- 3.2 Nominal inflection -- 4. From 'old' to 'middle' -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Syntax of Old Frisian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non-sentential phrase structure -- 3. Verbal syntax -- 3.1 The order of verb and complement -- 3.2 Old Frisian as a verb second language -- 3.3 The verbal complex -- 4. The subject -- 5. Case and word order -- 6. Negation -- 7. Complex sentence structure -- 7.1 Relative clauses -- 7.2 Variation in conjoined sentences -- 8. Text material -- Finiteness and verb fronting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. V2 in Frisian -- 2.1 The base -- 2.2 Properties of Move V -- 2.3 Some counterexamples? -- 2.4 Some conclusions -- 3. En+imperative -- 3.1 Frisian imperatives -- 3.2 The distinction main clause/embedded clause -- 3.3 The notion 'finiteness' -- 3.4 Some proposals -- 4. Some final remarks -- More is going on upstairs than downstairs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. V2 in subordination? -- 3. Major properties of ECV2s -- 4. ECV2s as independent expressions -- 5. Normal' or 'paratactic' coordination -- 6. ECV2s, EV2s, and V1-parentheticals -- 7. Final remarks -- The Imperativus-pro-Infinitivo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of en+imperative.

3. The external structure of the C-type: Grammatical coordination? -- 4. The internal structure of the IPI -- 5. Conclusion -- Two infinitives -- 1. Two infinitives -- 2. INFe and verb clusters -- 2.1 Part of a verb cluster -- 2.2 Phonetically realized subject -- 2.3 Extraction -- 2.4 Distribution -- 3. INFe and complements in extraposition -- 3.1 Extraposition -- 3.2 Noun phrase positions -- 3.3 Complement to a noun -- 4. The internal structure of nominal infinitive-phrases -- 5. The categorial status of nominal infinitive-phrases -- The verbal complex -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verbal complex -- 3. Nominalization as an argument for a lexical complex verb analysis of the verbal complex -- 3.1. Frisian nominalizations -- 3.2 Nominalization and V-Raising -- 3.3 Morphological processes affecting argument structure -- 4. Morphological selection -- 5. Word order of the verbal complex: te+V extraposition -- 6. The Infinitivus-pro-Participio Effect -- The third construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verbal complex -- 3. The third construction -- 4. The third construction and te+V-raising -- 5. The third construction and scrambling -- 6. Conclusion -- Complementizer agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The status of -sto, -ste, and -st -- 3. Agreement relations -- 4. Subject-verb restrictions -- 5. Complementizer-verb restrictions -- 6. Complementizer-subject restrictions -- 7. Pro-subjects -- 8. Double agreement -- 9. Summary -- Grammatical borrowing and language change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The transition of verbs of the -je class to the -e class -- 3. Diminutive formation: -ke > -tsje -- 4. Word order in the verbal complex: Inversion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Frisian language changes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The survey -- 3. The replacement of grammatical words: Zich(zelf) and hun -- 3.1 Zich(zelf) -- 3.2 Hun -- 4. Diminutive formation.

5. Order of the verbal complex -- 6. Final remarks -- Recent changes in the verbal complex of Frisian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A matter of grammar interaction? -- 3. A matter of grammar -- Contact-induced changes in Modern West Frisian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect levelling of Frisian dialects -- 2.1 Standard Frisian -- 2.2 Standard Dutch -- 3. Examples of Frisian-Dutch interference -- 3.1 Lexical interference -- 3.2 Phonological interference -- 3.3 Morphological interference -- 3.4 Syntactic interference -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. The concrete nature of interference -- 5. Why interference? -- 6. Language policy -- 7. A short summary -- On the (in-)stability of Frisian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. TYF94: The stability of Frisian -- 2.1 Language command -- 2.2 Language behaviour -- 2.3 Language attitude -- 3. TYF94: The instability of Frisian -- 4. TYF94: Frisian as the language of interaction for all -- 5. The significance of TYF94 -- Nasalization and lengthening -- 1. Lexical phonology -- 2. Nasalization without lengthening -- 3. Nasalization with long vowels: Lengthening or not? -- 4. Final remarks -- Monophthongs and syllable structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetic length of Frisian monophthongs -- 3. Distributional properties of Frisian monophthongs -- 4. Phonological length and syllable structure -- 5. Final remarks -- A lexical theory of schwa-deletion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Schwa-deletion and sonority restrictions -- 3. Towards a lexical theory of schwa-deletion -- 4. The case of 'hannele': [hfnl6] or [hfnl6]? -- 5. Adjacent) syllabic consonant syllables -- 6. The case of 'hammeren': [hcmrn] -- 7. Final remark -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.