Front matter -- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history / Bammesberger, Alfred -- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages / Braunmüller, Kurt -- On comparatives in English and other languages / Breivik, Leiv Egil -- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject / Christoffersen, Marit -- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared / Fischer, Olga -- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes / Kastovsky, Dieter -- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages / Mørck, Endre -- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence / Nielsen, Hans F. -- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax / Stockwell, Robert / Minkova, Donka -- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials / Swan, Toril -- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments / Vennemann, Theo -- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic / Westvik, Olaf Jansen -- Subject Index |