I-IV -- Preface -- List of participants -- Contents -- Toward a history of linguistic typology -- Language typology and linguistic reconstruction -- Typological and areal issues in reconstruction -- Diminutive plural infixation and the "West Franconian" problem -- Long syllabic consonants in Proto-Indo-European -- Typology and evaluation of linguistic reconstruction -- The typological shift to configurational syntax in Indo-European languages -- Sound change and typological shift: Initial mutation in Celtic -- Reconstruction, typology, and the "original homeland" of the Indo-Europeans -- Typological paradoxes in phonological reconstruction: The case of Polabian reduced vowels -- Linguistic reconstruction, typology, and criteria of truth -- On typological plausibility and natural sound change -- Typology and reconstruction of numeral systems: The case of Austroasiatic -- Typology and the diachronic evolution of German morphosyntax -- Syntactic reconstruction and reconstructibility: Proto-Indo-European and the typology of null objects -- Index of names -- Index of languages and dialects