Frontmatter -- Contents/Inhalt/Contenu -- X. Syntactic Typology Syntaktische Typologie Typologie syntaxique -- 64. Word order typology -- 65. Le marquage differentiel de l'objet -- 66. Causatives -- 67. The passive voice -- 68. Verbal reflexives and the middle voice -- 69. Resultative constructions -- 70. Existential constructions -- 71. Predicative possession -- 72. Adnominal possession -- 73. Internal and external possessors -- 74. Complement clauses -- 75. Comparative constructions -- 76. Conditional constructions -- 77. Interrogative constructions -- 78. Hortative constructions -- 79. Exclamative constructions -- 80. Dislocation -- 81. Focus constructions -- 82. Noun phrase coordination -- 83. Converbs -- 84. Reference maintenance in discourse -- XI. Lexical typology Lexikalische Typologie La typologie lexicale -- 85. Lexical typology from a cognitive and linguistic point of view -- 86. Lexical typology from an anthropological point of view -- 87. Universal units in the lexicon -- 88. Kin terms in grammar -- 89. Derivation -- 90. Color terms -- 91. Spatial dimension terms -- 92. Quantifiers -- 93. Verbs of perception -- XII. Phonology-based typology Typologie auf phonologischer Basis Typologie du domaine phonologique -- 94. Silbenstruktur -- 95. Phonologische Prozesse -- 96. Metrical patterns -- 97. Tone systems -- 98. Intonation -- XIII. Salient typological parameters Typologisch besonders markante Parameter Parametres typologiques particulierement saillants -- 99. Silben- und akzentzahlende Sprachen -- 100. Finite vs. non finite languages -- 101. Subject-oriented vs. subjectless languages -- 102. Head-marking vs. dependent-marking languages -- 103. Configurationality and polysynthesis -- 104. Discourse configurationality -- XIV. Typological characterization of language families and linguistic areas Typologische Charakterisierung von Sprachfamilien und Sprachbiinden La caracteristique typologique de families et d'aires linguistiques -- 105. Principles of areal typology -- 106. Arealtypologie und Dialektologie -- 107. The European linguistic area: Standard Average European -- 108. Aire linguistique balkanique -- 109. Südasien als Sprachbund -- 110. Mesoamerica as a linguistic area -- XV. Diachronic aspects of language types and linguistic universals Diachronische Aspekte von Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung Aspects diachroniques de la recherche typologique et universaliste -- 111. Historizitat - Sprachvariation, Sprachverschiedenheit, Sprachwandel -- 112. Pathways of lexicalization -- 113. Les processus de grammaticalisation -- 114. Conceptions of typological change -- 115. Contact-induced typological change -- 116. Typology and universals of Pidginization -- 117. Creolization -- 118. Typological changes in language obsolescence -- 119. 'Tote' Sprachen -- 120. From Latin to the Romance languages -- 121. From Ancient Germanic to modern Germanic languages -- 122. Vom Alttürkischen zu den modernen Türksprachen -- 123. From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic -- 124. Vom Altäthiopischen zu den neuäthiopischen Sprachen -- 125. Die kaukasischen Sprachen -- Indexes I Register I Indexes