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The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems.

• Contents
• Introduction – Morpho-Syntactic Convergences and Current Linguistic Theory
• Part I: Contact Phenomena, Causes and Types of Explanations
• Balkan Syntax: Typological and Diachronic Aspects
• Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies
• Areal Typology and Balkan (Morpho-)Syntax
• Diachronic Regularities Explaining the Tendency towards Explicit Analytic Marking in Balkan Syntax
• Part II: Balkan Syntax and Universal Principles of Grammar
• Impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic: Contact effects in the Balkans
• Morphology versus Syntax in the Balkan Verbal Complex
• Universal Constraints on Balkanisms. A Case Study: The absence of Clitic Climbing
• Balkan Clitic Doubling Revisited: Micro-Variation, Typological Generalizations, and a True Universal
• Cross-categorial Syncretism and Containment in Balkan and Slavic
• Part III: Variation in the Sprachbund
• Modal habere-Constructions in the Balkan Slavic Context
• The Romanian subjunctive from a Balkan perspective
• Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution
• Language Index
• Subject Index