i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement and event semantics in Older Egyptian -- The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian -- Genitive constructions in Coptic -- Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian -- Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian -- VSO and left-conjunct agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew -- IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems -- The syntax of Classical Greek infinitive -- Latin object and subject infinitive clauses -- Latin word order in generative perspective: An explanatory proposal within the sentence domain -- Some firm points on Latin word order: The left periphery -- Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages -- A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour -- Index -- List of contributors