Titelei -- Commentum Editoris -- Guest Editors' Preface -- Two Grammars in One: Sentential Complements and Complementizers in Bengali and other South Asian Languages -- Language Mixing, Typology, and Second Language Acquisition -- Typology vs. Convergence: The Issue of Dravidian/Indo-Aryan Syntactic Similarities Revisited -- Where do Compound Verbs Come From? (And Where are They Going?) -- Typology of Verbal Categories of The Languages of Nepal -- Ergativity Attrition in the History of Western New Indo-Aryan Languages (Panjabi, Gujarati and Rajasthani) -- Convergence Patterns in Tuluva: A New Scope for Comparative Studies -- The Definition and Significance of Linguistic Areas: Methods, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (with Special Reference to the Validity of South Asia as a Linguistic Area) -- Personal Pronouns and Related Phenomena in the South Asian Linguistic Area: Convergent Features or Convergence-resisting Features? -- The Role of Language of Religion in the Convergence of South Asian Languages -- Dative Subject Constructions in South Asian Languages -- Morphological Diversity and Morphological Borrowing in South Asia -- Convergence and Resistance to Morphological Change in Agglutinative Languages of South and Central Asia -- Creolization and Convergence in Morphosyntax: Sri Lanka. Portuguese and Sourashtra Nominal Marking Typology -- Ergativity in Gujarati, Hindi, and Pashto: The Evidence from Causative Constructions -- Agreement in South Asian Languages and Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework -- The Interplay of Typological and Genetic Factors in Determining the South Asian Language Area -- The Proto-Munda Verb System and some Connections with Mon-Khmer -- About the Guest Editors and Chief Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Sonstiges