Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glosses -- Introduction -- A.1 Functional Typologies -- The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch -- Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms -- Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis -- A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) -- A.2 Constraints on the Encoding of Concepts -- Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives -- Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean -- A.3 Limits of the Exponence of Functions: Zero -- Zero and nothing in Jarawara -- Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul -- B.1 Establishing Categories and Relations -- Once more on linguistic categories -- Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme -- Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax -- Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control -- B.2 Formal Typologies -- Areal typology of tone-consonant interaction and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande -- The internal structure of adpositional phrases -- On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs -- Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches -- Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks -- B.3 Discovering Function in the Identity of Form -- Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages -- "A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon": towards a typology of partitive and pseudopartitive nominal constructions -- Backmatter