Stæfcræft Studies in Germanic Linguistics : selected papers from the 1st and 2nd Symposium on Germanic Linguistics, University of Chicago, 4 April 1985, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3-4 Oct. 1986 (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991)
Includes bibliographical references and index
STÆFCRÆFT STUDIES IN GERMANIC LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; FOREWORD; Table of contents; ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF GERMAN: IN DEFENSE OF THE CATEGORY ADJECTIVE/ADVERB; ON TWO CASE-BASED REANALYSIS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN DUTCH; THE UNACCUSATIVE HYPOTHESIS AND A REFLEXIVE CONSTRUCTION IN GERMAN AND DUTCH; ON THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EARLY GERMANIC, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON BEOWULF; OUT OF CONTROL: CONTROL THEORY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPTY CATEGORIES, EXPLETIVES, AND MISSING SUBJECTS IN GERMAN.
MODERN EVIDENCE FOR ANCIENT SOUND CHANGES: OLD ENGLISH BREAKING AND OLD HIGH GERMAN VOWEL EPENTHESIS REVISITEDINFLECTIONS AND PARADIGMS IN GERMAN NOMINAL DECLENSION; PHONOLOGIZATION IN GERMANIC: UMLAUTS AND VOWEL SHIFTS; THE SOUND-SHIFT REVISITED -- OR JACOB GRIMM VINDICATED; THE ROLE OF SEMANTIC RESTRICTIONS IN GERMAN PASSIVE FORMATION; THE RISE OF PERIPHRASTIC TENSES IN GERMAN: THE CASE AGAINST LATIN INFLUENCE; ON THE SYLLABIC MOTIVATION OF INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES IN GERMANIC; ON A PARAMETER OF CASE PERCOLATION; MASTER LIST OF REFERENCES; INDEX OF NAMES.
The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the two symposia. The thirteen papers cover a broad cross-section of Germanic linguistics, including problems in synchronic syntax, mainly of Dutch and German; the synchronic morphology of German; synchronic morphophonology of various Ge