Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introducing new trends in Nordic linguistic research -- Section 1: Language contact -- Competing tendencies in Germanic pronominal and deictic systems: The most general principle will prevail -- "Pitch accent" and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact -- Implications of language contact: Evaluating the appropriateness of borrowings in written Icelandic -- At the frontier: Sámi linguistics gets a boost from outside -- Section 2: Phonology -- Two phonological rarities in Ingrian dialects -- Analysing phonological variation in Faroese -- Section 3: Morphosyntax -- Mari converb constructions - Interpretation and translation -- Han and hon - Anaphoric pronouns in Early Scandinavia -- From accusative to dative (via nominative): The case of fjölga 'increase' and fækka 'decrease' in Icelandic -- Section 4: Syntax -- A generative interpretation of Diderichsen's positional grammar -- Evidence for a syntactic Parameter at work in Övdalian -- Embedded word order in Heritage Scandinavian -- Section 5: Grammaticalization -- Through the spyglass of synchrony: Grammaticalization of the exterior space in the Eastern Circum-Baltic -- Conjunctive markers of polar questions in Estonian -- Index