Focus on Germanic Typology

Focus on Germanic Typology

Werner Abraham (Ed.)

Table of Contents
Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth: Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch
Werner Abraham: Introduction
John H. McWhorter: What happened to English?
Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson: Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic
Jóhanna Barddal_ The semantics of the impersonal construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: beyond thematic roles
Cedric Boeckx und Kleanthes K. Grohmann: Left dislocation in Germanic
Jac C. Conradie: Verb sequence and placement: Afrikaans and Dutch compared
Hartmut Czepluch: Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German
Molly Diesing: The upper functional domain in Yiddish
Bridget Drinka: Präteritumschwund: evidence for areal difussion
Werner Abraham: The European demise of the simple past and the emergence of the periphrastic perfect: Areal diffusion or natural, autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation?
László Molnárfi: Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic
Rolf Thieroff: The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages
List of authors

Akademie Verlag, Studia Typologica [STTYP] - Volume 6, Paperback, english, 360 pages