Аннотация:This article surveys morphological universals, empirical generalizations about the morphological structure of a possible human language. The first section introduces the notion of morphological universal and provides a brief overview of two possible understandings of this notion. The second section surveys morphological universals that delimit cross-linguistic variation in the shape of morphological items. The third section presents universal generalizations about the meaning of morphological items. Possible ways of explaining languages universals are characterized in the last section.