We outline the issues and decisions involved in creating a Penn-style treebank of Middle
Low German (MLG, 1200-1650), which will form part of the Corpus of Historical Low German …

In most of the world's languages, referential subjects may in general be omitted (Gilligan
1987). Rizzi (1982, 1986a) suggested that in null subject languages (NS languages), the …

In this chapter, we focus on the choice of different genres in the Middle Low German part of
the tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German and its implications for syntax. We …

The notion of “basic” word order, and in particular how to identify it, has been much
discussed in the typological literature (eg Hawkins 1983, Dryer 1995, Croft 2003, Song …

In this paper I propose a new analysis of null arguments in Old Norwegian. I argue that the
option of null realization in Old Norwegian correlates with a distinction between φ P and DP …

Der Verbund ‚Deutsch Diachron Digital 'vereint die Referenzkorpora Altdeutsch,
Mittelhochdeutsch, Frühneuhochdeutsch, Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch und …

In this work I examine the distribution of null subjects in main and embedded declaratives
and interrogatives in Old Venetian. I show that there is a clear asymmetry between …

Die mittelniederdeutsche Syntax wurde in der älteren Forschungsgeschichte nur
unzureichend behandelt, da–zu Unrecht–angenommen wurde, dass sich kaum …

1. Background Agreement patterns in non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second
person head have gained more attention in generative linguistic theories since Ross (1970) …

The possessive construction in (1), which we refer to as the Possessor Linking Construction
(PLC), is exhibited across a wide range of modern Germanic varieties and has attracted a …