Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. General problems -- Standard Average European as an exotic language -- Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates -- Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation -- 2. Deixis -- Deixis - a pragmatic universal? -- Possessive adnominal modifiers -- 3. Morphology -- The structure of the noun in European languages -- L'infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d'approche typologique -- The infinitive in south-east European languages -- Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis -- 4. Tense, aspect and modality -- Types of tense and aspect systems -- On the coding of sentential modality -- 5. Actancy/voice -- Caractéristiques actancielles de l'«européen moyen type»* -- Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages -- Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages -- 6. Complementation and subordination -- The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English -- Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais -- Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe* -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects.