This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).Table of ContentsIntroduction C. Jan-Wouter Zwart vii•xi List of contributors xiii•xiv Subordination 1 Wh-movement and integrated parenthetical constructions Marga Reis 3•41 Van as a marker of dissociation: Microvariation in Dutch Jeroen Craenenbroeck 43•69 Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses Line Mikkelsen 71•93 Syntactic versus semantic control Susanne Wurmbrand 95•129 Movement and Morphology 131 Parametric variation and scrambling in English Roland Hinterhölzl 133•152 V2 and Holmberg’s Generalization Øystein Nilsen 153•175 The distribution of declarative verb second in Germanic Olaf Koeneman 177•203 A verb’s gotta do what a verb’s gotta do!: On Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter Øystein Alexander Vangsnes 205•219 On the correlation between morphology and syntax: The case of V-to-I Artemis Alexiadou and Gisbert Fanselow 221•244 Language Variation and Change 245 Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English Eric Haeberli 247•275 A structure-based analysis of morphosyntactic regularities in language contact Eric Hoekstra 277•291 Syntax and Semantics 293 Swiping in Germanic Jason Merchant 295•321 The ambiguity of weak reflexive pronouns in English and German Markus Steinbach 323•348 ‘Binominal each-constructions’ (BECs) in German and English Malte Zimmermann 349•377 References 379•398 Subject index 399