Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is a subject? -- 3 Alternating Dat-Nom / Nom-Dat predicates -- 4 Oblique subjects in Early Germanic: Gothic, Old / Middle High German, Old / Middle English, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish -- 5 Reconstructing oblique subjects for Proto- Germanic -- 6 Modern German: An anomaly? -- 7 Synthesis -- References -- Name Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index