Table of Contents
1. Approaches to Language Typology: A Conspectus, Masayoshi Shibatani and Theodora Bynon
2. Typological Comparison: Towards a Historical Perspective, Paolo Ramat
3. Prague School Typology, Petr Sgall
4. Modern Syntactic Typology, William Croft
5. The Diachronic Typological Approach to Language, Joseph H. Greenberg
6. Typological Research on Actancy: The Paris RIVALC Group, Gilbert Lazard
7. The St Petersburg/Leningrad Typology Group, Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Viktor P. Litvinov
8. Cognitive-Conceptual Structure and Linguistic Encoding: Language Universals and Typology in the UNITYP Framework, Hansjakob Seiler
9. The Principles-and-Parameters Approach: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese, Naoki Fukui