Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 General introduction: Taxonomic nouns and their derived functions in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages -- Part 1: Type noun constructions in Germanic languages -- 2 Type noun-constructions in English and Dutch -- 3 English type noun-constructions with lexical functions: A new functionalstructural typology -- 4 Type nouns in some varieties of English -- 5 The function and use of NP-external sort/ kind of: The case of sort/kind of DEF NP -- 6 Ways of classification: German Art and Typ -- Part 2: Type noun constructions in Romance languages -- 7 A panoramic overview of the extended uses of taxonomic nouns in Romance languages -- 8 Classification, qualification, typification: Categorizing with genre de and espèce de 'kind of' in French -- 9 The network of specie, genere, sorta, tipo constructions: From lexical features to discursive functions -- 10 Pragmatic functions and contexts of use of TIPO in European Portuguese -- 11 Taxonomic nouns and markers of mitigation in Río de la Plata Spanish -- Part 3: Type noun constructions in Slavic languages -- 12 Taxonomic nouns in Slavic: An overview -- 13 Towards a comprehensive typology of type noun constructions in Slavic languages, with a special focus on Polish and Russian -- 14 Polish w stylu and the rise of hedges -- 15 Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora -- Part 4: Comparative analyses -- 16 The complementizer function of typenouns in ad hoc concept construction: Evidence from Italian and Russian -- 17 Clear vs. approximate categorization in French and Latvian -- 18 Sociopragmatic variation, sort of and genre in English and French -- Language index -- Subject index