Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Part I. General considerations
6. Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis 3
7. Universals, explanations and pragmatics 17
8. Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale 27
9. Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
10. Towards a typology of voice 45
11. Non-verbal predicability 77
12. Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication 95
13. Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization 123
14. Towards a semantic typology of language 137
15. A hierarchy of main predicate encoding 179
16. On explaining double object constructions 203
17. “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions 223
18. Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
19. Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis 265
20. Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects 279
21. Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability 303
22. Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception 347
23. Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov 367
24. Lexical universale and universals of grammar 383
25. Author Index 417
26. Language Index 422
27. Subject Index 425
28. Backmatter 430