Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Factors influencing word ordering -- Proximal to distal: Information flow and order in Maa -- Word order variation in Middle Iranic: Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, and Sogdian -- Word order in Mukri Kurdish - the case of incorporated Targets -- Targets and other postverbal arguments in Southern Balochi: A multidimensional cline -- Word order in contact and the expression of Target in Northern Domari -- The evolution of VO and OV alternation in Romeyka -- Word order in Iran-Turkic -- Word order variation in Chulym Turkic of Siberia -- Copulas and Target phrase positioning in the Arabic dialects of Kurdistan -- Word order typology in North-Eastern Neo- Aramaic -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects