RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMANIC LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN EUROPEAN NATIONALISMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE GERMAN-SPEAKING AREA -- REFERENCES -- SOUTHERN MIDDLE ENGLISH HISE AND THE QUESTION OF PRONOMINAL TRANSFER IN LANGUAGE CONTACT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kaufman's Claims -- 3. Theoretical Considerations -- 4. Philological Considerations -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FLEMINGS, BRABANDERS AND HOLLANDERS IN THE URBAN MELTING POT DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHERN DUTCH VERNACULARIN THE 17th CENTURY -- REFERENCES -- GERMANIC, NORTHWEST-INDO-EUROPEAN AND PRE-INDO-EUROPEAN SUBSTRATES -- REFERENCES -- OLD HIGH GERMAN NU -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Imperatives -- 2. Interjections -- 3. Exclamations -- 4. Questions -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT AND REFLEXIVE IN OLD ICELANDIC -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources -- B. Secondry Sources -- THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER ASSIGNMENT FROM OHG TO NHG -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The broad outlines: Gender within German historical morphology -- 2. Patterns of gender change in German -- 3. NM and diachronic gender assignment -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SPLIT INTRANSITIVITY IN GERMAN AND DUTCH: SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC PARAMETERS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Tests for Unaccusativity in Germanic -- 2. Semantic Parameters: A cognitive account -- 3. Pragmatic Parameters of Split Intransitivity: The case of sub-extraction -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORM AND MEANING IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Grammatical Morphology -- 2. Word Order Freedom -- 3. Semantic Diversity of Basic Grammatical Relations -- 4. The Argument Trespassing Generalization -- 5. Raising -- 6. Exceptional Case Marking -- 7. Wh-Movement -- 7. Pied-Piping.

8. Deletions and Resumptive Pronoun Phenomena -- 9. Summary -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT-OBJECT AND COORDINATE ASYMMETRIES AND THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF GERMAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The configuration of German -- 2. Coordinate and subject-object asymmetries: the dual V2 parameter -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- RELATIVIZATION STRATEGIES IN EARLY NEW HIGH GERMAN: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Working Definitions -- 2. Proposal for a New Approach to Relativization -- 3. Summary and Directions for Further Research -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources -- B. Secondary Sources -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.