Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements¶
Greenberg, J. H. (1963). Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements. Universals of Language.
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- Linguistic Universals
- (1) The universal claim: the cross-language regularity proposed as universal — a structural or organizational property hypothesized to hold across the world's ~7,000 languages (e.g., every language has pronouns; every language distinguishes something like nouns from verbs; most languages have SOV or SVO word order; if a language has dominant VSO order, it has prepositions).
This sourceGreenberg Universals of Language foundational typological method implicational universals.
- Some claims strengthen to near-absolute status; others demote to statistical tendencies with documented exceptions.
This sourceGreenberg Universal 3 4 word-order universals prepositional postpositional implicational.
- (1) The universal claim: the cross-language regularity proposed as universal — a structural or organizational property hypothesized to hold across the world's ~7,000 languages (e.g., every language has pronouns; every language distinguishes something like nouns from verbs; most languages have SOV or SVO word order; if a language has dominant VSO order, it has prepositions).
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