Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology in typologically different contexts 1
6. Demonstratives in the languages of Europe 25
7. Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages 49
8. Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe 63
9. The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages 95
10. Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels 133
11. Inalienability and emphatic pronominal possession in European and Mediterranean languages 159
12. Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations 183
13. Complex nominal determiners: A contrastive study 215
14. Relativisation strategies in insular Celtic languages 245
15. Canonical and non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages 289
16. Re: duplication. Iconic vs counter-iconic principles (and their areal correlates) 317
17. Index of Languages 351
18. Index of Names 355
19. Index of Subjects 361