<em>Handbook of Germanic Etymology</em>

Cladistic Methodology and West Germanic

For about a century and a half now one of the usual tasks of historical linguistics has been reconstructing the prehistory of linguistic communities. (That is, of course, the side of reconstruction that non-linguists are interested in.) A perennial question is what sort of model of linguistic diversification best fits the data. This paper will explore that question in the light of data supporti...

On the use of passives across Germanic

Introduction There has long been an intuition that the subject position is deeply relevant to information structural concerns cross-linguistically, particularly because they frequently appear at the left edge of a clause, which is thought to be associated with given/topical information (cf. Vallduvi 1992). This raises interesting questions about the role of the passive construction in the disco...

A Comparative Study of the Germanic Tradition

FEDERALISM AND FEDERATION IN EUROPE:A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE GERMANIC TRADITION

Linearization of Verb Clusters in West Germanic

The Provenance of Provenance in Germanic Areas