Relativity, linguistic variation and language universals

Language universals are usually thought of as properties holding of all languages. But very few, if any, such universals exist, due to the extreme structural diversity of languages. Instead, there are many typological universals, which allow for variation but constrain it or at least limit its distr...

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Main Author: William Croft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2010-03-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/303