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Language Universals

✍ Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word o

Language Universals

📁 Language Universals

✍ Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word o

Language Universals

📁 Language Universals

✍ Joseph Greenberg 📂 Library 📅 1980 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>„This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to survive as a basis for inquiry for many decades to come.” <br><em

Language Universals and Second Language

📁 Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

✍ William E. Rutherford (Ed.) 📂 Library 📅 1984 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertiliz

Language Universals and Variation

📁 Language Universals and Variation

✍ Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Praeger 🌐 English

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principle

Language Universals and Variation

📁 Language Universals and Variation

✍ Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins (Editors) 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Praeger (An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, 🌐 English