Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Theoretical and methodological premises -- Chapter 1. Theoretical background -- Chapter 2. Data sources -- Chapter 3. Data classification -- Part 2. An areal study of non-standard relative constructions in European languages -- Chapter 4. Typological issues -- Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic issues -- Chapter 6. Diachronic issues -- Part 3. Corpus-based language-specific case studies -- Chapter 7. Presentative constructions in German discussion forums -- Chapter 8. Relative constructions in a spoken Russian corpus -- Summary and outlook -- Appendix A - The language sample -- Appendix B - The questionnaires -- Notes -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects