Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription and Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Favored and Disfavored Grammatical Patterns
3. Correlations between Types
4. Correlations of Structural Types with Grammatical Categories
5. Diachronic Stability: Genetic and Areal
6. The Role of Geography: Structural Affinities between Areas
7. Linguistic Diversity: Geographical Distribution
8. Diversity and Linguistic Prehistory: Conclusions and Open Questions
Appendixes
1. Sample Languages
2. Data: Language (by Area) and Structural Features
3. Alphabetical List of Languages
4. Frequency and Distribution of Voice Systems
Notes
References
Indexes