Language Change and Language Structure : : Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen, Toril Swan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bammesberger, Alfred,; Braunmüller, Kurt,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Christoffersen, Marit,; Fischer, Olga,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Minkova, Donka,; Mørck, Endre,; Nielsen, Hans F.,; Stockwell, Robert,; Swan, Toril,; Vennemann, Theo,; Westvik, Olaf Jansen,
• HerausgeberIn: Jansen, Olaf,; Mørck, Endre,; Swan, Toril,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 73
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.) :; Num. figs. and tables

Table of Contents

• I-XII
• The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history
• Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages
• On comparatives in English and other languages
• Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject
• The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared
• Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes
• The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages
• Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence
• Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax
• A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials
• Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments
• On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic
• Subject Index