Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction - Morpho-Syntactic Convergences and Current Linguistic Theory -- Part I: Contact Phenomena, Causes and Types of Explanations -- Balkan Syntax: Typological and Diachronic Aspects -- Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies -- Areal Typology and Balkan (Morpho-)Syntax -- Diachronic Regularities Explaining the Tendency towards Explicit Analytic Marking in Balkan Syntax -- Part II: Balkan Syntax and Universal Principles of Grammar -- Impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic: Contact effects in the Balkans -- Morphology versus Syntax in the Balkan Verbal Complex -- Universal Constraints on Balkanisms. A Case Study: The absence of Clitic Climbing -- Balkan Clitic Doubling Revisited: Micro-Variation, Typological Generalizations, and a True Universal -- Cross-categorial Syncretism and Containment in Balkan and Slavic -- Part III: Variation in the Sprachbund -- Modal habere-Constructions in the Balkan Slavic Context -- The Romanian subjunctive from a Balkan perspective -- Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution -- Language Index -- Subject Index