Main description:
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the two symposia. The thirteen papers cover a broad cross-section of Germanic linguistics, including problems in synchronic syntax, mainly of Dutch and German; the synchronic morphology of German; synchronic morphophonology of various Germanic languages; historical and comparative Germanic phonology; language contact and early Germanic morphosyntax; and early Germanic historical and comparative syntax, with extensive reference to Beowulf. Bibliographic references are consolidated in a single Master List of References', and there is also an Index of Names'.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- On the Morphological Analysis of German
- On Two Case-Based Reanalysis Representations of the Causative Construction in Dutch
- The Unaccusative Hypothesis and a Reflexive Construction in German and Dutch
- On the Origin and Development of Relative Clauses in Early Germanic, with Special Emphasis onBeowulf
- Out of Control
- Modern Evidence for Ancient Sound Changes
- Inflections and Paradigms in German Nominal Declension
- Phonologization in Germanic
- The Sound-Shift Revisited 2; or Jacob Grimm Vindicated
- The Role of Semantic Restrictions in German Passive Formation
- The Rise of Periphrastic Tenses in German
- On the Syllabic Motivation of Inflectional Suffixes in Germanic
- On a Parameter of Case Percolation
- Master List of References
- Index of Names
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the two symposia. The thirteen papers cover a broad cross-section of Germanic linguistics, including problems in synchronic syntax, mainly of Dutch and German; the synchronic morphology of German; synchronic morphophonology of various Germanic languages; historical and comparative Germanic phonology; language contact and early Germanic morphosyntax; and early Germanic historical and comparative syntax, with extensive reference to Beowulf. Bibliographic references are consolidated in a single Master List of References', and there is also an Index of Names'.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- On the Morphological Analysis of German
- On Two Case-Based Reanalysis Representations of the Causative Construction in Dutch
- The Unaccusative Hypothesis and a Reflexive Construction in German and Dutch
- On the Origin and Development of Relative Clauses in Early Germanic, with Special Emphasis onBeowulf
- Out of Control
- Modern Evidence for Ancient Sound Changes
- Inflections and Paradigms in German Nominal Declension
- Phonologization in Germanic
- The Sound-Shift Revisited 2; or Jacob Grimm Vindicated
- The Role of Semantic Restrictions in German Passive Formation
- The Rise of Periphrastic Tenses in German
- On the Syllabic Motivation of Inflectional Suffixes in Germanic
- On a Parameter of Case Percolation
- Master List of References
- Index of Names