Aus dem Inhalt: 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 ((Sterbezeichen)) 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
