Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Searching for a place of Slavic in Europe as a linguistic area -- Part I: Issues in Methodology and Pre-History -- 1. Matrёška and areal clusters involving varieties of Slavic. On methodology and data treatment -- 2. Common Slavic in the light of language contact and areal linguistics: Issues of methodology and the history of research -- 3. Intertwining trees, eddies, and tentacles - some thoughts on linguistic relationships in Europe, mainly Slavicnon- Slavic -- Part II: Slavic and Standard Average European -- 4. Standard Average European revisited in the light of Slavic evidence -- 5. The perfects of Eastern "Standard Average European": Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic, and the role of roofing -- 6. Slavic vis-à-vis Standard Average European: An areal-typological profiling on the morphosyntactic and phonological levels -- 7. How Yiddish can recover covert Asianisms in Slavic, and Asianisms and Slavisms in German (prolegomena to a typology of Asian linguistic influences in Europe) -- Part III: Slavic in Areal Groupings in Europe -- 8. Defining the Central European convergence area -- 9. Some morpho-syntactic features of the Slavic languages of the Danube Basin from a pan-European perspective -- 10. Slavic dialects in the Balkans: Unified and diverse, recipient and donor -- 11. Balkanisms and Carpathianisms or, Carpathian Balkanisms? -- 12. Morphosyntactic changes in Slavic micro-languages: The case of Molise Slavic in total language contact -- 13. On formulas of equivalence in grammaticalization: An example from Molise Slavic -- 14. Placing Kashubian on the language map of Europe -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages