In recent years, generative grammar has paid increasing attention to diachronic aspects of syntax, also because the Principles and Parameters approach makes rather strong predictions with respect to language change and possible variation. The V/2 phenomenon found in Germanic and in (old) Romance languages is discussed in several articles from various perspectives. Other contributions cover, among other things, the genitive in Old and Middle High German and morphological Case reduction and its consequences for word order.
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| Brandner, Ellen / Ferraresi, Gisella: | |||
| Introduction | S. 7 | ||
| Abraham, Werner: | |||
| Kasus, Aspekt und nominale Referenz: Komplexe kausale Zusammenhänge in der Diachronie des Deutschen und ihre formale Darstellung auf vergleichender typologischer Grundlage | S. 22 | ||
| Schrodt, Richard: | |||
| Aspekt, Aktionsart und Objektsgenitiv im Deutschen: Wie weit kann eine systematischen Erklärungsmöglichkeit für den Schwund des Genitivobjekts | S. 71 | ||
| Weerman, Fred: | |||
| Asymmetries between Nominative, Accusative and Inherent Case | S. 95 | ||
| Pittner, Karin: | |||
| Attraktion, Tilgung und Verbposition: Zur diachronen und dialektalen Variation beim Relativpronomen im Deutschen | S. 120 | ||
| Roberts, Ian: | |||
| Remarks on the Old English C-system and the Diachrony of V2 | S. 154 | ||
| Kaiser, Georg A.: | |||
| V2 or not V2? Subject-Verb Inversion in Old and Modern French Interrogatives |
S. 168 | ||
| Fontana, Josep M.: | |||
| Some Problems in the Analysis of Non-finite Verb Fronting Constructions | S. 191 | ||
| Waltereit, Richard: | |||
| Zur Diachronie elliptischer Ausdrücke im Französischen | S. 230 | ||
| van Dijk, Kees: | |||
| Perfect Tense and the IPP-Effect in early Middle Dutch | S. 246 | ||
| Ferraresi, Gisella: | |||
| Middles, Reflexives and Ergatives in Gothic | S. 273 | ||
| The Authors | S. 292 | ||