Index of subjects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. 1. General problems
3. Standard Average European as an exotic language Östen Dahl 3
4. Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates Suzanne Romaine 9
5. Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini 25
6. 2. Deixis
7. Deixis – a pragmatic universal? Barbara Kryk 49
8. Possessive adnominal modifiers Gianguido Manzelli 63
9. 3. Morphology
10. The structure of the noun in European languages Johannes Bechert 115
11. L’infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d’approche typologique Claude Buridant 141
12. The infinitive in south-east European languages Emanuele Banfi 165
13. Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis Malachy McKenna 185
14. 4. Tense, aspect and modality
15. Types of tense and aspect systems Wolfgang Raible 195
16. On the coding of sentential modality Dietmar Zaefferer 215
17. 5. Actancy/voice
18. Caractéristiques actancielles de l’“européen moyen type” Gilbert Lazard 241
19. Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages Juan Carlos Moreno 255
20. Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages László Dezső 273
21. 6. Complementation and subordination
22. The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English Martin Harris 307
23. Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais Claire Blanche-Benveniste 317
24. Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera 337
25. Index of names 357
26. Index of languages 365
27. Index of subjects 373
28. Backmatter 389