I-IV -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: The soul of Germanic linguistics -- The putative strengthening of glides in Gothic -- Latin influence on German word order: A discussion of Behaghel's theory -- Ambisyllabicity in Old English: A contrary view -- Machds, daß-ds wegkummds! The mystery of inflected complementizers -- On the Old High German Medienverschiebung -- Underspecification and the Old High German monophthongization -- The phrase structure of partitives in High German -- The reaction of monosyllables to apocope in German dialects -- Aspects of "headedness switching" in German, Dutch, and Danish verb complexes -- Agreement and null subjects in Germanic and Romance -- Articulatory phonology as a tool for explanation in historical phonology: The case of stop epenthesis in Germanic -- The Germanic i-umlaut revisited -- How Indo-European is Germanic? -- BAG V: PC German -- Thematic hierarchies and the argument-structure-syntax interface: Evidence from Germanic ditransitive verbs -- Against the notion "metrical grammar" -- Two-domain conditionals: Verb-first, integration, politeness -- Coordinate ellipsis in German: Old problems from a new (minimalist) perspective -- The development of reduplicating verbs in Germanic -- Causative psych-verbs in the history of English -- Index