Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. General considerations -- Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis -- Universals, explanations and pragmatics -- Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale -- Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions -- Towards a typology of voice -- Non-verbal predicability -- Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication -- Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization -- Towards a semantic typology of language -- A hierarchy of main predicate encoding -- On explaining double object constructions -- "Nouny" and "verby" adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions -- Part III. Morphemes and lexical items -- Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis -- Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects -- Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability -- Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception -- Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov -- Lexical universale and universals of grammar -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter