Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of gloss abbreviations -- Complementizer semantics - an introduction -- Part I: Indo-European languages -- Finite clause complementizers in Celtic -- Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers -- Complementizer semantics in the Germanic languages -- Complementizers in Slavonic (Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian) -- Semantic functions of complementizers in Baltic -- The semantics and syntax of complementation markers as an areal phenomenon in the Balkans, with special attention to Albanian -- Semantics of complementation in Ossetic -- Complementizers in Romani -- Part II: Non-Indo-European languages -- On the semantic function and selection of Basque finite complementizers -- Semantic functions of complementizers in Maltese -- Complementation marker semantics in Finnic (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian) -- Clausal complementation in Kildin, Skolt and North Saami -- Semantic functions of complementizers in Permic languages -- Modal functions of the complementizer hogy 'that' in Hungarian -- Clausal complementation in Turkish and Noghay in a semantic perspective -- Complementizers in Kalmyk -- Semantics of complementation in Adyghe -- Complementizers in Hinuq -- Complementizers and the complementizing function - structure and pragmatics in a panchronic perspective -- Complementizer semantics in European languages: Overview and generalizations -- Language index -- Subject index