Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part I. General Considerations
  • Reflections On The History Of The Study Of Universals: The Example Of The Partes Orationis
  • Universals, Explanations And Pragmatics
  • Isomorphic, Anisomorphic, And Heteromorphic Universals
  • 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 ""; ""“Nounyâ€? And “Verbyâ€? Adjectivals: A Typology Of Predicative Adjectival Constructions ""; ""Part Iii. Morphemes And Lexical Items ""; ""Demonstratives And The Localist Hypothesis ""; ""Phraseological Universals: Theoretical And Applied Aspects ""; ""Scopal Quantifiers: Some Universals Of Lexical Effability ""; ""Semantic Integrality: A Universal Semiotic Feature Of Language And Perception ""; ""Foreground And Background: Weinrich Against Labov ""
  • Lexical Universals And Universals Of Grammar Author Index
  • Language Index
  • Subject Index