I-XII -- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history -- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages -- On comparatives in English and other languages -- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject -- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared -- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes -- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages -- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence -- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax -- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials -- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments -- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic -- Subject Index