Contents: Approaches to language typology / Masayoshi Shibatani and Theodora Bynon
Topological comparison : towards a historical perspective / Paolo Ramat
Prague School topology / Petr Sgall
Modern syntactic typology /William Croft
The diachronic typological approach to language / Joseph H. Greenberg
Typological research on actancy : the Paris RIVALC group / Gilbert Lazard
The St Petersburg/Leningrad typology group / Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Viktor P. Litvinov
Cognitive-conceptual structure and linguistic encoding : language universals and typology in the UNITYP framework / Hansjakob Seiler
The principles-and-parameters approach : a comparative syntax of English and Japanese / Naoki Fukui.
Approaches to language typology. ISBN 0198242719. Published by Clarendon Press in 1995. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.