Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents Inhalt Contenu
• Syntactic Typology Syntaktische Typologie Typologie syntaxique
  • Word order typology
  • Le marquage différentiel de l'objet
  • Causatives
  • The passive voice
  • Verbal reflexives and the middle voice
  • Resultative constructions
  • Existential constructions
  • Predicative possession
  • Adnominal possession
  • Internal and external possessors
  • Complement clauses
  • Comparative constructions
  • Conditional constructions
  • Interrogative constructions
  • Hortative constructions
  • Exclamative constructions
  • Dislocation
  • Focus constructions
  • Noun phrase coordination
  • Converbs
  • Reference maintenance in discourse
• Lexical typology Lexikalische Typologie La typologie lexicale
  • Lexical typology from a cognitive and linguistic point of view
  • Lexical typology from an anthropological point of view
  • Universal units in the lexicon
  • Kin terms in grammar
  • Derivation
  • Color terms
  • Spatial dimension terms
  • Quantifiers
  • Verbs of perception
• Phonology-based typology Typologie auf phonologischer Basis Typologie du domaine phonologique
  • Silbenstruktur
  • Phonologische Prozesse
  • Metrical patterns
  • Tone systems
  • Intonation
• Salient typological parameters Typologisch besonders markante Parameter Paramètres typologiques particulièrement saillants
  • Silben- und akzentzählende Sprachen
  • Finite vs. non-finite languages
  • Subject-oriented vs. subjectless languages
  • Head-marking vs. dependent-marking languages
  • Configurationality and polysynthesis
  • Discourse configurationality
• Typological characterization of language families and linguistic areas Typologische Charakterisierung von Sprachfamilien und Sprachbünden La caractéristique typologique de familles et d'aires linguistiques
  • Principles of areal typology
  • Arealtypologie und Dialektologie
  • The European linguistic area: Standard Average European
  • Aire linguistique balkanique
  • Südasien als Sprachbund
  • Mesoamerica as a linguistic area
• Diachronic aspects of language types and linguistic universals Diachronische Aspekte von Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung Aspects diachroniques de la recherche typologique et universaliste
  • Historizität - Sprachvariation, Sprachverschiedenheit, Sprachwandel
  • Pathways of lexicalization
  • Les processus de grammaticalisation
  • Conceptions of typological change
  • Contact-induced typological change
  • Typology and universals of Pidginization
  • Creolization
  • Typological changes in language obsolescence
  • ‘Tote’ Sprachen
  • From Latin to the Romance languages
  • From Ancient Germanic to modern Germanic languages
  • Vom Alttürkischen zu den modernen Türksprachen
  • From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic
  • Vom Altäthiopischen zu den neuäthiopischen Sprachen
  • Die kaukasischen Sprachen
• Indexes Register Indexes
  • Index of names Namenregister Index des noms
  • Index of languages Sprachenregister Index des langues
  • Index of subjects Sachregister Index des matières