Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Contributors; 3. The Role of Language in European Nationalisms: A comparative study with particular reference to the German-speaking area (by Barbour, J. Stephen); 4. Southern Middle English hise and the Question of Pronominal Transfer in Language Contact (by Buccini, Anthony F.); 5. Flemings, Brabanders and Hollanders in the Urban Melting Pot: Development of the northern Dutch vernacular in the 17th century (by Howell, Robert B.); 6. Germanic, Northwest-Indo-European and Pre-Indo-European Substrates (by Polome, Edgar C.); 7. Old High German n u (by Wauchope, Mary Michele); 8. Subject and Reflexive in Old Icelandic (by Juntune, Thomas W.); 9. The Evolution of Gender Assignment from OHG to NHG (by Salmons, Joseph C.); 10. Split Intransitivity in German and Dutch: Semantic and pragmatic parameters (by Shannon, Thomas F.); 11. Language Contact and the Relationship of Form and Meaning in English and German (by Louden, Mark L.); 12. Subject-object and Coordinate Asymmetries and the Syntactic Structure of German (by Velde, John R. te); 13. Relativization Strategies in Early New High German: An empirical approach (by Dressler, Monika R.); 14. Index of Names and Authors; 15. Index of Subjects