x, 447 pages : 24 cm, Includes bibliographies, The ergative hypothesis and free word order in Dutch and German / Hans den Besten -- The case of German / Hubert Haider -- Diachronic syntax : verb position and COMP in German / Jürgen Lenerz -- On deriving V-1 and V-2 structures in German / Susan Olsen -- On pied-piped infinitives in German relative clauses / Henk van Riemsdijk -- Missing subjects in German / Ken Safir -- On case and binding theory / Wolfgang Sternefeld -- What is a possible complex word? / Gisbert Fanselow -- On composition and derivation : the constituent structure of secondary words in German / Tilman N. Höhle -- Against Höhle's compositional theory of affixation / Marga Reis -- A discussion of coordination and word-syntax / Jindřich Toman