The World's Major Languages

4.4 Register Variation -- Bibliography -- References -- 4 German -- 1 Historical Background -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Morphology -- 4 Syntax -- Bibliography -- References -- 5 Dutch -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History and Typology -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphology -- 5 Syntax -- Bibliography -- References -- 6 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 The Common Heritage -- 4 Accent: Stress and Tone -- 5 Vowels -- 6 Consonants -- 7 Morphology -- 7.1 Nouns -- 7.2 Articles -- 7.3 Adjectives -- 7.4 Adverbs -- 7.5 Pronouns -- 7.6 Verbs -- 8 Syntax -- 8.1 Basic Word Order -- 8.2 Inversion -- 8.3 Sentence Adverbs -- 8.4 Subordination -- 8.5 Relative Clauses -- 8.6 Imperatives -- 8.7 Impersonal Sentences -- 8.8 Indefinite Subject -- 8.9 Conditional Clauses -- 8.10 Prepositions -- 8.11 -- 8.12 -- 8.13 -- 8.14 -- 8.15 The Exclamatory Preterit -- 8.16 Durative Expressions -- 8.17 Modal Adverbs -- 9 Lexicon -- Bibliography -- References -- 7 Latin and the Italic Languages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Morphology and Syntax -- 4 Lexicon -- Bibliography -- References -- 8 Romance Languages -- Bibliography -- References -- 9 French -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The French-speaking World -- 3 Variation, Varieties and Variables -- 4 Phonology -- 4.1 Phonology and Orthography -- 4.2 Syllables and Stress -- 4.3 Vowels and Semi-vowels -- 4.4 Consonants -- 4.5 Liaison, Elision and Mute' (Latent) e -- 5 Morphology and Morphosyntax -- 5.1 The Verb Phrase: Written Language -- 5.2 Pronouns: Written Language -- 5.3 The Verb Phrase and Pronouns: Spoken Language -- 5.4 The Noun Phrase -- 6 Syntax and Pragmatics -- 6.1 Topicalising Structures -- 6.2 Focalising Procedures -- 7 Lexicon -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- References -- 10 Spanish -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphology -- 5 Syntax -- Bibliography