GERMANIC LINGUISTICS SYNTACTIC AND DIACHRONIC -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- GERMAN STANDARD PRONOUNS ANDNON-STANDARD PRONOMINAL CLITICS TYPOLOGICAL COROLLARIES -- 1. Purpose -- 2. CLs in Romance and Slavic languages -- 3. Pronominal forms in Standard German and its dialects -- 4. Leftward movement of Prons and CLs -- 5. The special structure of the German (and Dutch) 'middle field' -- 6. Agreement as pronoun incorporation -- 7. The Puzzle of the Inversed Pronominal Objects -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE EPISTEMIC USE OF GERMAN AND ENGLISH MODALS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stative Verbs -- 2.1 Duration -- 2.2 Control -- 2.3 Avoidance of Ambiguity -- 2.3.1 German mögen -- 2.3.2 English must and be bound to -- 2.3.3 Summary -- 3. The Progressive -- 4. Past Infinitive -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ARGUMENTS FOR TWO VERB-SECONDCLAUSE TYPES IN GERMANICA COMPARISON OF YIDDISH AND GERMAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Yiddish Syntax -- 2. Unifying Yiddish and German -- 2.1 Evidence for V-to-I in Germanic -- 2.2 Zwart 1993 on AgrsP in Dutch -- 2.2.2 Subject-object asymmetries in German -- 2.2.3 Clause Subjunction in German -- 2.2.4 The Properties of es in German -- 2.2.5 A cross-Germanic subject-object as ymmetry -- 3. V2 in Yiddish -- 3.1 Topicalization in Yiddish -- 3.2 Wh-questions in German -- 3.3 V-to-C in Yiddish and German -- 3.3.1 Lack of AGR to COMP in Yiddish -- 3.3.2 Expletive es and syntactic saturation in Germanic -- 3.3.3 Clause subjunction in German: An account -- 3.3.4 Verb second, mood markers and economy of derivation -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE SYNTAX OF DUTCH ER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence against previous analyses of er -- 3. Er as a licenser for pro -- 4. The absence of Unaccusative Movement in Dutch -- 5. The unaccusative data.

6. The transitive data -- 7. Preposed Datives -- 8. Locative prepositional phrase -- 9. Prepositional er and quantitative er -- 10. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVEIN THE HISTORY OF GERMAN -- REFERENCES -- THE VERSCHÄRFUNG AS FEATURE SPREAD -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Proposed Explanations for Verschärfung -- 3. Role of the Laryngeals -- 4. Verschärfung and Syllable Contact -- 5. Laryngeals and Compensatory Lengthening -- 6. Other Instances of Strengthening in Germanic -- 7. Conclusion and Implications -- REFERENCES -- GERMANIC CLASS IV AND V PRETERITS -- REFERENCES -- GERMANIC IN EARLY ROMAN TIMES -- REFERENCES -- TOWARD A PHONOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONOF l PALATALIZATION IN CENTRAL YIDDISH -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Major Yiddish Dialects: An overview -- 2. Palatalized consonants in Yiddish -- 3. Types of I in (Central) Yiddish -- 4. Possible Polish source for variants of 1 in CY -- 5. The lexical phonology of l-palatalization in CY -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PHONOLOGY, ORTHOGRAPHY AND THE UMLAUT PUZZLE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Twaddell -- 2.1 The Reception of Twaddell -- 3. Voyles -- 3.1 Problems with Voyles's account -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.