Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages

1. Introduction (by Diewald, Gabriele); 2. *haitan in Gothic and Old English (by Cloutier, Robert); 3. Incipient Grammaticalisation: Sources of passive constructions in Old High German and Old English (by Mailhammer, Robert); 4. Passive auxiliaries in English and German: Decline versus grammaticalisation of bounded language use (by Petre, Peter); 5. Causative habban in Old English: Tracing the Development of a Budding Construction (by Kilpio, Matti); 6. Remembering ( ge)munan: The rise and decline of a potential modal (by Eitelmann, Matthias); 7. The emergence of modal meanings from haben with zu-infinitives in Old High German (by Jager, Anne); 8. Hearsay and lexical evidentials in Old Germanic languages, with focus on Old English (by Timofeeva, Olga); 9. Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Study (by Diewald, Gabriele); 10. The Verb to be in the West Saxon Gospels and the Lindisfarne Gospels (by Bolze, Christine); 11. Aspectual properties of the verbal prefix a- in Old English with reference to Gothic (by Broz, Vlatko); 12. Paer waes vs. thar was: Old English and Old High German existential constructions with adverbs of place (by Pfenninger, Simone E.); 13. On gain and loss of verbal categories in language contact: Old English vs. Old High German (by Vennemann, Theo); 14. Index