Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of figures XIII
5. List of tables XV
6. List of abbreviations XIX
7. Introduction 1
8. Part 1. Theoretical and methodological premises
9. Chapter 1. Theoretical background 5
10. Chapter 2. Data sources 47
11. Chapter 3. Data classification 73
12. Part 2. An areal study of non-standard relative constructions in European languages
13. Chapter 4. Typological issues 149
14. Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic issues 255
15. Chapter 6. Diachronic issues 297
16. Part 3. Corpus-based language-specific case studies
17. Chapter 7. Presentative constructions in German discussion forums 371
18. Chapter 8. Relative constructions in a spoken Russian corpus 387
19. Summary and outlook 417
20. Appendix A – The language sample 426
21. Appendix B – The questionnaires 428
22. Notes 433
23. References 440
24. Index of languages 464
25. Index of authors 468
26. Index of subjects 474