Language Universals

Language Universals is a theoretical construct in linguistic typology denoting a universal generalization that holds across all known natural languages, distinguished by its invariance in structural, syntactic, semantic, or phonological patterns irrespective of historical or geographical relationships among languages.

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Cognitive Explanations For UniversalsDiachronic Sources Of UniversalsFunctional Explanations For UniversalsNoun Phrase UniversalsStatistical UniversalsSubject-object-verb TypologyTypological Frequency PatternsUniversals Of AnaphoraUniversals Of Clause StructureUniversals Of Grammatical Categories

Publications

845

New work for a theory of universals

David Lewis · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · 1983 · 3.1K citations

Humanities, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science +4

Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements

Joseph Greenberg · Americanae (AECID Library) · 1963 · 2.7K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +13

The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science

Nicholas Evans, Stephen C. Levinson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2009 · 2.6K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics +13

Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library · 1978 · 2.2K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +14

Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding

Marion Owen, Noam Chomsky · The Modern Language Review · 1986 · 2K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +12

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Martín Haspelmath
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
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William Croft
University of New Mexico, United States
10 publications · 1.4K citations
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Anna Wierzbicka
Australian National University, Australia
10 publications · 580 citations
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Stephen C. Levinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
9 publications · 4K citations
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Greville G. Corbett
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
8 publications · 338 citations
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60 publications · 13.9K citations
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
22 publications · 1.2K citations
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Lingua
25 publications · 1.3K citations
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS · 15 publications · 3K citations
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Journal of Linguistics
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