Frontmatter -- Part one -- Chapter one: The problems of linguistic typology -- Chapter two: Universals and typology -- Chapter three: The typological level. Predicates and arguments -- Chapter four: Crisis in formalism? Theory of grammar and empirical data -- Part two -- Chapter five: Towards a typology of Common Germanic -- Chapter six: The birth of new morphological categories: the case of the article and relative pronoun in Germanic languages -- Chapter seven: Towards a typology of Pompeian Latin -- Chapter eight: An example of reanalysis: periphrastic forms in the Romance languages' verb system -- Chapter nine: Sentence negation in Romance and Germanic -- Part three -- Chapter ten: The language typology of Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Bibliography -- Analytical Index -- Backmatter