I-IV -- Contents -- Germanic linguistics in the Post-Modern Age -- Infinitival subject sentences in Gothic -- Lexicality and the versification of Johann Heinrich Voß: Observations on prosodic feature analysis -- backen > buk/ backen > backte: Α study in grammatical variation -- To the rescue of time in German tense -- On syntactic and pragmatic features of speech acts in Wulfstan's homilies -- Argument-predicate structure in grammar and performance: A comparison of English and German -- The definition of a grammatical category: Gothic absolute constructions -- Subject sich and expletive pro: Impersonal reflexive passives in German -- Diminutive formation in Yiddish: A syllable-based account -- Grammar and grammars in seventeenth-century Germany: The case of Christian Gueintz -- The beginning and end of the (great) vowel shifts in Late Germanic -- Nonlinear phonology and the development of postconsonantal resonants in word-final position in West Scandinavian and Germanic -- Diachronic stratification of the Germanic vocabulary -- Formal and less formal rules -- BAG IV: Phonological interference -- Semantic motivation vs. arbitrariness in grammar: Toward a more general account of the DAT/ACC contrast with German two-way prepositions -- The Double Object construction in the Germanic languages: Some synchronic and diachronic notes -- Index