Bechert J. (ed.) et al. Toward a Typology of European Languages

Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. — 401 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 8). — ISBN: 0899255884The Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation aims at the development of high-level research topics which require the cooperation of scientists from all European countries as well as the frequent collaboration of non-European researchers.
Within the field of linguistics, a few projects on typological research have been setup, particularly at the suggestion of P. Ramat. This topic has presently received a world-wide attention as it is so closely connected with research on language universals. In Europe, the UNITYP group - supervised by H.Seiler - had, in fact, already provided a noteworthy contribution in the field.