Contents: Dagmar Bittner: The definite articles in German. What are the features creating an underspecified paradigm? - Tjeerd de Graaf/Rogier Nieuweboer: The language of the Siberian Mennonites - Kurt Gustav Goblirsch: The third obstruent series in Old Germanic - Eugene Green: Semiotics of compounds in Old English riddles - Yuri Kleiner: Compensatory variation - Anatoly Liberman: Apocope in Germanic, or an ax(e) to grind - Paul Listen/Ilona Vandergriff: PC aspects of human nouns in German - Marc Pierce: On the fate of final obstruents in Modern German - Irmengard Rauch: BAG VI - 2: Toward a grammar of German snail-mail - Irmengard Rauch: Analogy's hidden triggers - James A. Ritchie: Perceptual cues in the Old High German monophthongization - Kerstin Schwabe: On shared constituents in German coordinative sentences - Donald Steinmetz: The Great Gender Shift and the attrition of neuter nouns in West Germanic: The example of German - Yasuko Suzuki: The prosody and syntax of light elements in West Germanic alliterative verse: With special reference to Beowulf.