| List of tables | p. x |
| List of language abbreviations | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Some remarks on the organization of this volume | p. 1 |
| Divergence and convergence in the Germanic languages | p. 6 |
| Germanic languages and Standard Average European | p. 9 |
| Typological classification | p. 12 |
| A survey of the Germanic languages | p. 13 |
| East Germanic | p. 14 |
| West Germanic | p. 15 |
| The North Sea Coast languages | p. 17 |
| North Germanic | p. 19 |
| The Germanic lexicon | p. 21 |
| Loanwords | p. 22 |
| Derivation | p. 26 |
| Compounding | p. 29 |
| Discourse particles | p. 32 |
| Phrasal verbs | p. 36 |
| The sound systems of Germanic: inventories, alternations and structures | p. 41 |
| Segmental inventories and alternations | p. 41 |
| The obstruents: place and manner of articulation | p. 41 |
| The sonorants | p. 53 |
| The vowels | p. 56 |
| The suprasegmental phonology of the Germanic languages | p. 65 |
| Syllable structure and sonority | p. 65 |
| Length | p. 74 |
| Lexical stress and the fool in Germanic phonology | p. 79 |
| Word tone in Germanic | p. 84 |
| The Germanic nominal system: paradigmatic and syntagmatic variation | p. 89 |
| Nominal inflection | p. 89 |
| Historical prelude: Indo-European heritage and Germanic innovation | p. 89 |
| Inflectional categories of the noun | p. 91 |
| The internal structure of the nominal phrase | p. 122 |
| Nominal phrases without nominal heads | p. 122 |
| Nominal phrases with pronoun heads | p. 124 |
| Nominal phrases headed by lexical nouns | p. 126 |
| Determiners | p. 137 |
| Weak quantifiers | p. 137 |
| Definite articles | p. 141 |
| Genitive phrases | p. 148 |
| Genitive phrases and determiners | p. 150 |
| Proper name possessors and pronominal possessors | p. 155 |
| The English 'double genitive' construction | p. 158 |
| The prenominal periphrastic possessive (Jan se boek) construction | p. 158 |
| Special developments of the genitive in possessive constructions | p. 161 |
| Meronymic constructions | p. 164 |
| Predeterminers | p. 167 |
| Discontinuous nominal phrases | p. 168 |
| Adjective phrases | p. 171 |
| Comparison | p. 174 |
| Pronouns in the Germanic languages | p. 175 |
| Personal pronouns | p. 175 |
| The referential properties of pronouns | p. 196 |
| The external syntax of noun phrases: subjects | p. 214 |
| Subject agreement | p. 214 |
| The typology and distribution of "expletive" arguments | p. 224 |
| Subjects in imperative clauses | p. 236 |
| Derived subjects and the syntax of voice | p. 237 |
| Raising constructions | p. 256 |
| The verbal systems of Germanic: paradigmatic and syntagmatic comparison | p. 270 |
| Historical prelude: the Indo-European heritage and Germanic innovations | p. 270 |
| Types of verbal inflection | p. 270 |
| Categories of verbal inflection: the Germanic tense/mood system and its Indo-European antecedents | p. 272 |
| Modal auxiliaries | p. 285 |
| Developments in the expression of tense in Germanic | p. 292 |
| Identifying periphrastic tense/aspect constructions | p. 293 |
| Future | p. 297 |
| Perfect tenses and past tenses | p. 301 |
| The meaning of the (present) perfect and the past | p. 307 |
| Progressive | p. 315 |
| Voice inflections and voice auxiliaries | p. 316 |
| Passive | p. 317 |
| Middle voice | p. 322 |
| The Scandinavian s-passive | p. 327 |
| Nonfinite verbal forms | p. 329 |
| The infinitive | p. 329 |
| The present principle and the English gerund | p. 341 |
| The past participle and the supine | p. 345 |
| Verbal valency | p. 347 |
| Head, complement and adjunct placement in the verb phrase | p. 350 |
| The relative order of the verb and its complements within the VP | p. 353 |
| The order of objects | p. 362 |
| Phrasal verbs | p. 366 |
| The syntax of the clause | p. 369 |
| Sentence adverbs | p. 370 |
| The syntax of negation | p. 376 |
| Some definitions: negation, scope and polarity | p. 376 |
| Scope, polarity and syntactic position | p. 377 |
| Polarity items, negative concord and multiple negation | p. 379 |
| Negative complementizers and pleonastic negation | p. 382 |
| Constituent negation with sentential scope | p. 383 |
| On formal differences between sentential negators and constituent negators | p. 392 |
| On the typology of sentential negation in Germanic | p. 394 |
| The syntax of the left periphery: topics, verb-second and subject/verb inversion | p. 398 |
| Main-clause/subordinate clause asymmetries in verb position | p. 400 |
| The triggers of verb-second order and the typology of V-2 | p. 404 |
| Complementizers | p. 415 |
| That-clauses | p. 415 |
| Infinitive complements | p. 417 |
| Relative clauses, questions and other fronting constructions | p. 420 |
| A typology of Germanic relative constructions | p. 420 |
| Questions | p. 473 |
| Topic constructions and left dislocation constructions | p. 478 |
| References | p. 482 |
| Index | p. 505 |
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