Frontmatter -- 1. General problems -- Standard Average European as an exotic language Östen Dahl -- Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates Suzanne Romaine -- Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini -- 2. Deixis -- Deixis - a pragmatic universal? Barbara Kryk -- Possessive adnominal modifiers Gianguido Manzelli -- 3. Morphology -- The structure of the noun in European languages Johannes Bechert -- L'infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d'approche typologique Claude Buridant -- The infinitive in south-east European languages Emanuele Banfi -- Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis Malachy McKenna -- 4. Tense, aspect and modality -- Types of tense and aspect systems Wolfgang Raible -- On the coding of sentential modality Dietmar Zaefferer -- 5. Actancy/voice -- Caractéristiques actancielles de l'"européen moyen type" Gilbert Lazard -- Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages Juan Carlos Moreno -- Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages László Dezső -- 6. Complementation and subordination -- The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English Martin Harris -- Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais Claire Blanche-Benveniste -- Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects -- Backmatter