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Vol. 12.2 of the American Journal of Germanic Linguistics has now appeared. Starting with volume 13 (2001) the _American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures_ will be renamed the _Journal of Germanic Linguistics_ and will be published quarterly (March, June, September, December) by Cambridge University Press. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 12.2 (2000) Studies in Memory of Edgar C. Polome Bridget Drinka, Guest Editor DEDICATION Bridget Drinka In Memoriam: Edgar Charles Polome Mark L. Louden, Carol F. Justus, and Robert D. King ARTICLES What gives with es gibt? Typological and comparative perspectives on existentials in German, Germanic, and Indo-European Brian D. Joseph The etymology of English boy, beacon, and buoy Anatoly Liberman The velar nasal in the adaptation of the Runic alphabet Frederick W. Schwink Formulaic binomials, morphosymbolism, and Behaghel's Law: The grammatical status of expressive iconicity Mark R. V. Southern The metrical reorganization of type E in the Heliand Seiichi Suzuki Urgermanisch *theg-naz 'Gefolgsmann' Stefan Zimmer Submissions may be directed to: Mark L. Louden (mlloudenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuefacstaff.wisc.edu) JGL, Dept. of German 818 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 For membership in the Society for Germanic Linguistics, visit the Society website at http://www.germaniclinguistics.org, or contact: Robert B. Howell (rbhowell
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