Linguistic Universals

Linguistic Universals is a theoretical construct in linguistic typology that identifies invariant properties or patterns common to all natural human languages, distinguishing them from language-specific or areally conditioned features.

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Derivational UniversalsFormal Explanations Of UniversalsFunctionalist Explanations Of UniversalsInflectional UniversalsLexical UniversalsMorphological UniversalsNoun Phrase OrderPhonological UniversalsPragmatic UniversalsProsodic Universals

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The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world

Choice Reviews Online · 1995 · 3.8K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics +16

New work for a theory of universals

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

Humanities, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science +4

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Celia Roberts · International Journal of Bilingualism · 1997 · 2.8K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +13

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

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Martín Haspelmath
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
14 publications · 1.6K citations
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Stephen C. Levinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
12 publications · 4.2K citations
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William Croft
University of New Mexico, United States
12 publications · 1.6K citations
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Anna Wierzbicka
Australian National University, Australia
12 publications · 1.3K citations
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Paul Kay
University of California, Berkeley, United States
11 publications · 2.5K citations
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92 publications · 19.2K citations
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Lingua
39 publications · 5.1K citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 25 publications · 8.5K citations
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
34 publications · 2.1K citations
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Linguistic Inquiry
23 publications · 5.9K citations
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