Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction and overview -- Part I: Verbal fronting: Typology and theory -- 1. Properties of verbal fronting -- 2. Patterns in verbal fronting -- 3. Previous approaches -- 4. An analysis in terms of order of operations -- 5. Predictions and further issues -- 6. Conclusion -- Part II: Language data -- 7. Languages with only one kind of verbal fronting -- 8. Languages with both kinds of verbal fronting -- Bibliography -- Language Index