Frontmatter -- Introduction / Siewierska, Anna -- Part I — Word order surveys -- Word order in Celtic / Tallerman, Maggie -- An overview of the main word order characteristics of Romance / Arnaiz, Alfredo R. -- Word order in the Germanic languages / Holmberg, Anders / Rijkhoff, Jan -- An overview of word order in Slavic languages / Siewierska, Anna / Uhliřová, Ludmila -- Basic characteristics of Modern Greek word order / Lascaratou, Chryssoula -- Word order in European Uralic / Vilkuna, Maria -- Word order in Kartvelian languages / Testelec, Yakov G. -- Word order in Daghestanian languages / Testelec, Yakov G. -- Part II — Parameters of word order variation -- Aspects of word order in the languages of Europe / Dryer, Matthew S. -- Order in the noun phrase of the languages of Europe / Rijkhoff, Jan -- Flexibility and consistency in word order patterns in the languages of Europe / Bakker, Dik -- The relative order of recipient and patient in the languages of Europe . / Primus, Beatrice -- Variation in major constituent order; a global and a European perspective / Siewierska, Anna -- Word order variation in some European SVO languages: a parametric approach / Holmberg, Anders -- Celtic word order: some theoretical issues / Tallerman, Maggie -- Word order variation in some SOV languages of Europe / Testelec, Yakov G. -- Discourse-configurationality in the languages of Europe / Kiss, Katalin É. -- Some issues in a performance theory of word order / Hawkins, John A. -- Appendix – 12 word order variables in the languages of Europe .... / Siewierska, Anna / Rijkhoff, Jan / Bakker, Dik -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects -- Backmatterweiterlesen