ON THE FORMAL SYNTAX OF THE WESTGERMANIA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- REFERENCE -- ON THE SUBJECT OF NONARGUMENT SUBJECTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Pleonastic Subjects in English -- 2. Towards a Solution -- 3. Case Assignment into the VP -- 4. Expletive 'there' and the Definiteness Effect -- 5. Extending the Analysis to Dutch and German -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. Appendix -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ON THE INTERACTION OF ROOT TRANSFORMATIONS AND LEXICAL DELETIVE RULES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the problem -- 3. Defining root transformations -- 4. Haben/sein Deletion in German and Ha Deletion in Swedish -- 5. SAI and Wh-Movement in English and the Base-Generability Principle -- 6. Conclusion -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LEFT DISLOCATION, CONNECTEDNESS, AND RECONSTRUCTION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic Connectedness -- 3. Theoretical discussion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE VERBAL COMPLEX IN CONTINENTAL WEST GERMANIC -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Double Infinitive Construction -- 2. Infinitivization and Inversion in German -- 3. Infinitivization and Inversion in Dutch -- 4. Verb Raising, Inversion and Variation -- 6. Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE CONTROL RELATION IN GERMAN -- 0. The context -- 1. What kind of conclusions can we draw from the distribution of grammati-cality among the sentences (l)-(4)? -- 2. Restrictions of semantic and pragmatic compatibility -- 3. A further consideration of the argument structure -- 4. Conditioning f actors for control split: speech act structure -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.