TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Preface: The soul of Germanic linguistics, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr; The putative strengthening of glides in Gothic, Charles M. Barrack; Latin influence on Germanic word order - a discussion of Behaghel's theory, Diana Chirita; Ambysillabicity in Old English - a contrary view, Robert D. Fulk; Machds, dab-ds wegkummds! The mystery of inflected complementarizers, Michael Getty; On the Old High German Medienverschiebung, Kurt Gustav; Underspecification and the Old High German monophtongization, Wayner Harbert; The phrase structure of partitives in High German, Robert G. Hoeing; The reaction on monosyllable to apocope in German dialects, Anatoly Liberman; Aspects of 'headedness switching' in German, Dutch, and Danish verb complexes, Erik J. Macki; Agreement and null subjects in Germanic and Romance, Enrique Mallen; Articulatory phonology as a tool for explanation in historical phonology - the case of stop epenthesis in Germanic, B. Richard Page; The Germanic i-umlaut revisited, Herbert Penzel; How Indo-european is Germanic? Edgar Polome; Bag V - PC German, Irmengard Rauch; Thematic hierarchies and the argument-structure-syntax interface - evidence from germanic ditransitive verbs, Rex A. Sprouse; Against the notion 'metrical grammar', Robert P. Stockwell, Donka Minkova; Two-domain conditionals - verb-first, integration, politeness, Ilona Vandergriff; Coordinate ellipsis in German - old problems from new (minimalist) perspective, John te Velde; The development of reduplicating verbs in Germanic, Theo Vennemann; Causative psych-verbs in the history of English, Heide Waltz.