Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

This quantitative sociolinguistic study examines the complex linguistic and social factors governing variation and change in the position of an auxiliary and a non-finite verb form in dependent clauses in works from 16th-century Nuremberg. It traces developments through adolescence and early adulthood and examines the usage of parents, siblings and others in the family network as well as written models (instructional works, printed books, and business and administrative language).