Preface Overview of the Germanic Languages Reconstructing Proto-Germanic (Martin Joachim Kümmel) Etymology and the Lexical Core of Germanic (Robert Mailhammer) Afrikaans (Adri Breed, Andries W. Coetzee) Danish (Eva Skafte Jensen) Dutch (Freek Van de Velde) English (Bernd Kortmann) Faroese (Hjalmar P. Petersen) Frisian (Christoph Winter) (High) German (Simon Pickl) Gothic and Other East Germanic Varieties (Stefan Schaffner) Luxembourgish (Peter Gilles) Norwegian (Agnete Nesse) Swedish (Erik M. Petzell) Yiddish (Lea Schäfer) Grammar - Phonology and Graphematics Vowels in Germanic (Arjen Versloot) Consonants in Germanic (Samantha Litty, Joseph Salmons) Syllable Structure in Germanic (Laura Catharine Smith) Foot Structure in Germanic (Joshua Booth, Aditi Lahiri) Tonal Accent in Germanic (Pavel Iosad) Word Stress in Germanic (Carlos Gussenhoven, Tomas Riad) Intonation in Germanic (Caroline Féry) Writing Systems in Early Runic and Early North Germanic (Christiane Zimmermann) Writing Systems in Early West Germanic (Gaby Waxenberger) Writing Systems in Modern West Germanic (Martin Evertz-Rittich) Grammar - Morphology Linguistic Typology and Variation in Germanic: Morphology (Damaris Nübling, Mirjam Schmuck) Discontinuous Morphological Structures in Germanic (Melitta Gillmann) Verbal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic (Jessica Nowak) Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Nouns (Christian Zimmer) Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Adjectives (Hans-Olav Enger) Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Determiners (Renata Szczepaniak) Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Pronouns (Stefan Rabanus) Gender Systems in Germanic (Jenny Audring) Compounding and Linking Elements in Germanic (Barbara Schlücker) Derivation in Germanic (Stefan Hartmann) Conversion in Germanic (Martina Werner) The Morphology of Names in Germanic (Tanja Ackermann, Mirjam Schmuck) Grammar - Syntax Processes of Syntactic Change in Germanic (Ulrike Demske) Verb Positions and Basic Clause Structure in Germanic (Jan-Wouter Zwart) Clause Types (and Clausal Complementation) in Germanic (Julia Bacskai-Atkari) Negation in Germanic (Johan Brandtler, Anne Breitbarth) Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Germanic (Thilo Weber) Pronominal and Expletive Subjects in Germanic (Gunther De Vogelaer) The DP-Domain in Germanic (Philipp Rauth) The AP-Domain in Germanic (Alexandra Rehn, Alexander Pfaff, Svetlana Petrova) PPs and Particles in Germanic (Marion Elenbaas) (Non-)Local Dependencies in Germanic (Augustin Speyer) Object Shift and Object Scrambling in Germanic (Hans Broekhuis) Diatheses in Germanic (Simon Kasper) Binding in Germanic (Eric Reuland, Martin Everaert) Agreement in Germanic (Haldór Ármann Sigurðsson) Variationist Perspectives The History of Variationist Germanic Linguistics (Frans Gregersen) Methods and Resources in Germanic Variationist Linguistics (John Nerbonne, Verena Blaschke, Hinrich Schütze, Barbara Plank) North Germanic Dialects (Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen) The Rise and Current Status of Standard Varieties in Germanic Languages (Tore Kristiansen) Social Variation in Germanic (Tore Kristiansen) Language of Social Media and Online Communication in Germanic (Steven Coats) Register and Enregisterment in Germanic (Jürgen Spitzmüller) Language Contact The Impact of Language Contact on North Germanic (Steffen Höder) Pidgins and Creoles With Germanic Lexifier Languages (Peter Bakker) Recent Impact of English on Other Germanic Languages (Eline Zenner) Receptive Multilingualism in Germanic Languages (Charlotte Gooskens) Germanic Languages in Contact in North America (Michael T. Putnam) Germanic Languages in Contact in Central and South America (Karoline Kühl) Germanic Languages in Contact in Africa, Asia, and Oceania (Claudia Maria Riehl) Language Contact in Postcolonial Settings Developing Germanic Standard Languages (Tobias Bernaisch) Modern Urban Multiethnolects of Germanic Languages (Pia Quist) Research Perspectives in Germanic Linguistics Research Traditions in Germanic Linguistics (Joshua Bousquette) Generative Approaches to Germanic Languages (Stefan Müller) Usage-Based Approaches to Germanic Languages (Martin Hilpert) Grammaticalization in Germanic (Torsten Leuschner) Comparative and (Micro-)Typological Approaches to the Analysis of Germanic Languages (Ekkehard König) Pragmatic Approaches to Germanic Languages (Karin Aijmer) Corpus and Computational Linguistic Approaches to Germanic Languages (Lars Borin) Language Acquisition in Germanic Languages (Fabio Trecca, Dorthe Bleses, Anders Højen) Signed Languages in Co-Existence With Germanic Languages: A Typological Perspective (Myriam Vermeerbergen, Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen).