From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Editor and contributing authors -- Introduction -- 1. Preliminary -- 2. A definition and its dimensions -- 2.1 Geographical region -- 2.2 Three or more languages -- 2.3 Shared structural features -- 2.4 Contact -- 2.5 Not accident -- 2.6 Not inheritance from a common source -- 3. Contact scenarios -- 4. The Atlantic as a linguistic area -- References -- The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund -- 1. Linguistic area or Sprachbund -- 2. The languages spoken in the Caucasus -- 3. Multilingualism in the Caucasus -- 4. The Caucasus as a socio-cultural setting -- 5. The indigenous Caucasian languages: one, two, or three families? -- 6. Polyglottal Caucasus: a geographic notion, a Sprachbund, or what? -- 7. The Caucasus as a linguistic area -- 7.1 The diagnostic features -- 7.2 Phonology -- 7.3 Morphophonology: Ablaut -- 7.4 Morphosyntax -- 7.5 Word Formation -- 7.6 Syntax -- 7.7 Lexical semantics -- 7.8 Lexical shapes -- 7.9 Common traits in phraseology -- 8. The contours of the Caucasian "Club" of languages -- 8.1 The core members -- 8.2 The peripheral members -- 8.3 The marginal languages -- 8.4 The contiguous languages -- 9. Multi-tier alliances -- 10. The lower-level alliances -- 10.1 Sub-regional alliances -- 11. Zones of influence -- 12. The dynamics of historical areal alliances -- 13. Substrate and superstrate in the Caucasus -- 14. The position of Kartvelian among the Caucasian languages -- 15. Conclusions -- References -- Abbreviations -- East Nusantara as a linguistic area -- 1. Introduction -- 2. East Nusantara -- 2.1 Geographical outline -- 2.2 History -- 2.3 The languages of East Nusantara -- 3. Austronesian features in Papuan languages -- 3.1 Primary constituent order -- 3.2 Inclusive/Exclusive opposition.

4. Shared Papuan features -- 4.1 Possessive constructions -- 4.2 Post-predicate negation -- 4.3 Tone -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Abbreviations -- Appendix -- The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Traditional cultures and habitat -- 1.2 History of contact and present situation -- 2. Overview of the languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region -- 2.1 The state of documentation -- 2.2 Reconstructing the history and classification of the Guaporé-Mamoré languages -- 3. Grammatical and areal characteristics -- 3.1 Criteria for the extent of the area -- 3.2 Defining features -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- An integrated areal-typological approach -- 1. Prologue -- 2. The area -- 2.1 Geographic and Ethnic Balkans -- 2.2 Membership -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Lists -- 3.2 Dialects versus standard language -- 3.3 An integrated areal-typological approach -- 4. Convergence of nominal case systems -- 4.1 General oblique case markers -- 4.2 Loss of dative case markers -- 5. Convergence of pronominal case systems -- 5.1 Loss of morphological datives -- 6. Convergence of conditions for clitic doubling -- 6.1 Obligatory clitic doubling -- 6.2 Gradual change of conditions for clitic doubling -- 7. Convergence of types of hosts for possessive clitics -- 8. Semantic convergence of impersonal constructions with datives -- 9. Convergence of constructions for the expression of the perfect -- 10. Formal devices for expressing evidentiality -- 10.1 Balkan Slavic evidentials -- 10.2 Albanian evidentials -- 10.3 Turkish as the source of the Balkan evidentials -- 11. Conclusions -- References -- Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The area, the phenomenon and the languages -- 2.1 The area -- 2.2 The phenomenon -- 2.3 The languages -- 3. The data.

3.1 Lexical verb 'come to have' -- 3.2 Pre-verbal uses -- 3.3 Post-verbal functions -- 3.4 Modal 'can' and lexical verb 'okay' -- 3.5 Zhuang between Lao and Cantonese -- 4. Variation in potential and ability: analysis and explanation -- 4.1 Analysis: the potential construction -- 4.2 Analysis: 'ability' and other cases -- 4.3 How to explain the variation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Language index -- Author index -- Subject index -- Place index -- The Studies in Language Companion Series.