Not only for Germanists – this collection makes accessible to a wider audience state-of-the art thinking on the intricate puzzles of German sentential pro-forms. If you are interested in the phenomenon from a syntactic, semantic or prosodic angle, you cannot avoid this book.

- Christopher Wilder, NTNU Trondheim,

For years, so-called correlates in German have presented a challenge to linguistic analysis, empirically and theoretically. What exactly are the conditions that trigger or block their occurrence? Is a correlate always one and the same thing? What kind of structure should be assigned to complex sentences containing an embedded clause with a correlate? Do we find similar phenomena in other languages? Written by eminent experts in their respective fields, the contributions offer convincing answers to central questions, based on new comprehensive empirical data and sophisticated theoretic thinking. In short: this is a “must read” for anybody interested in German correlates and related phenomena.

- Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, University of Oslo,

Sentential pro-forms or correlates are at the core of the mechanisms that establish syntactic complexity. Various word order phenomena cannot be captured if the role of these elements or their silent counterparts is not well understood. The topic is a classic, and it recurs with every move of linguistic theory. In the present collection it is in the hands of a team of leading experts who are known for their integrative work on clause structure bringing syntax, semantics, prosodic phonology and new empirical methodologies together.

- Josef Bayer, Konstanz University,