Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. ERGATIVITY AND TRANSITIVITY -- Causalité, Causativité, Transitivité -- On Two Parameters of Transitivity -- Transitivity Increasing Operations in Tariana -- How to Butter a Sandwich. On 'spread' in Dutch and Hungarian from a Typological Perspective -- Labile Konstruktionen -- Inverse Direction and Second Person in Dumi -- On Patient Demotion in Lak -- II. VOICE, CAUSATIVE AND VALENCY -- Voice Parameters -- Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs: The Case of Vedic -- Allocutivity and Voice in the Basque Verb -- From Inert to Actional Causative -- Towards a Typology of Grammatical Polysemy: Reflexive Markers as Markers of Reciprocity -- Verb Formation in Leko: Causatives, Reflexives and Reciprocals -- ΙII. TENSE AND MOOD -- Verbal Categories, Meaning and Typology -- The Perfect in English and German -- L'expression de l'irréel: essai de typologie -- Sur le paradigme complet de l'impératif français -- IV. VERBAL CATEGORIES AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS -- Verb Serialization and Attractor Positions: Constructions and Their Potential Impact on Language Change and Language Contact -- Defining Converbs -- Translatability and Universals Revisited -- Die Verneinung als funktional-semantische Kategorie (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Streckformen des Deutschen und Russischen) -- List of Contributors