Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I . THE WORD ORDER CONSTRAINT -- 1. V/2 in German -- 2. Surface Structure Conditions -- 3. V/2 in English, French, Romansh -- PART II. A HISTORICAL SURVEY -- 4. The Type A Constraint -- 5. Gothic and Icelandic -- 6. German -- 7. Other Germanic Languages -- 8. French and English -- 9. Two Syntactic Changes -- EPILOGUE ON SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
