Deals with the issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. Three papers in this volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch, while others focus on one or two languages within a family and the implications of their structures for the family, the phylum, or linguistic typology as a whole.

1. Introduction (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt); 2. Case marking, syntactic domains and information structure in Kabyle (Berber) (by Mettouchi, Amina); 3. The internal and comparative reconstruction of verb extensions in early Chadic and Afroasiatic (by Ehret, Christopher); 4. One way of becoming a dative subject (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt); 5. Coding the unexpected: Subject pronouns in East Dangla (by Shay, Erin); 6. Ergative-active features of the Ethiopian Semitic type (by Hudson, Grover); 7. Number as an exponent of gender in Cushitic (by Mous, Maarten); 8. Relativization in Kambaata (Cushitic) (by Treis, Yvonne); 9. Between coordination and subordination in Gawwada (by Tosco, Mauro); 10. Author index; 11. Language index; 12. Subject index