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| List of tables | |
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| List of language abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some remarks on the organization of this volume | |
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| Divergence and convergence in the Germanic languages | |
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| Germanic languages and Standard Average European | |
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| Typological classification | |
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| A survey of the Germanic languages | |
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| East Germanic | |
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| West Germanic | |
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| The North Sea Coast languages | |
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| North Germanic | |
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| The Germanic lexicon | |
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| Loanwords | |
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| Derivation | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Discourse particles | |
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| Phrasal verbs | |
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| The sound systems of Germanic: inventories, alternations and structures | |
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| Segmental inventories and alternations | |
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| The obstruents: place and manner of articulation | |
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| The sonorants | |
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| The vowels | |
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| The suprasegmental phonology of the Germanic languages | |
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| Syllable structure and sonority | |
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| Length | |
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| Lexical stress and the fool in Germanic phonology | |
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| Word tone in Germanic | |
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| The Germanic nominal system: paradigmatic and syntagmatic variation | |
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| Nominal inflection | |
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| Historical prelude: Indo-European heritage and Germanic innovation | |
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| Inflectional categories of the noun | |
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| The internal structure of the nominal phrase | |
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| Nominal phrases without nominal heads | |
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| Nominal phrases with pronoun heads | |
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| Nominal phrases headed by lexical nouns | |
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| Determiners | |
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| Weak quantifiers | |
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| Definite articles | |
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| Genitive phrases | |
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| Genitive phrases and determiners | |
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| Proper name possessors and pronominal possessors | |
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| The English 'double genitive' construction | |
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| The prenominal periphrastic possessive (Jan se boek) construction | |
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| Special developments of the genitive in possessive constructions | |
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| Meronymic constructions | |
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| Predeterminers | |
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| Discontinuous nominal phrases | |
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| Adjective phrases | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Pronouns in the Germanic languages | |
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| Personal pronouns | |
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| The referential properties of pronouns | |
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| The external syntax of noun phrases: subjects | |
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| Subject agreement | |
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| The typology and distribution of "expletive" arguments | |
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| Subjects in imperative clauses | |
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| Derived subjects and the syntax of voice | |
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| Raising constructions | |
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| The verbal systems of Germanic: paradigmatic and syntagmatic comparison | |
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| Historical prelude: the Indo-European heritage and Germanic innovations | |
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| Types of verbal inflection | |
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| Categories of verbal inflection: the Germanic tense/mood system and its Indo-European antecedents | |
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| Modal auxiliaries | |
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| Developments in the expression of tense in Germanic | |
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| Identifying periphrastic tense/aspect constructions | |
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| Future | |
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| Perfect tenses and past tenses | |
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| The meaning of the (present) perfect and the past | |
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| Progressive | |
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| Voice inflections and voice auxiliaries | |
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| Passive | |
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| Middle voice | |
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| The Scandinavian s-passive | |
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| Nonfinite verbal forms | |
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| The infinitive | |
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| The present principle and the English gerund | |
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| The past participle and the supine | |
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| Verbal valency | |
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| Head, complement and adjunct placement in the verb phrase | |
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| The relative order of the verb and its complements within the VP | |
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| The order of objects | |
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| Phrasal verbs | |
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| The syntax of the clause | |
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| Sentence adverbs | |
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| The syntax of negation | |
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| Some definitions: negation, scope and polarity | |
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| Scope, polarity and syntactic position | |
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| Polarity items, negative concord and multiple negation | |
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| Negative complementizers and pleonastic negation | |
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| Constituent negation with sentential scope | |
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| On formal differences between sentential negators and constituent negators | |
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| On the typology of sentential negation in Germanic | |
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| The syntax of the left periphery: topics, verb-second and subject/verb inversion | |
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| Main-clause/subordinate clause asymmetries in verb position | |
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| The triggers of verb-second order and the typology of V-2 | |
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| Complementizers | |
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| That-clauses | |
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| Infinitive complements | |
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| Relative clauses, questions and other fronting constructions | |
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| A typology of Germanic relative constructions | |
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| Questions | |
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| Topic constructions and left dislocation constructions | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |