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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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2010-03-01
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Series: | CogniTextes |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/303 |