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*Brown DE (1991) ''Human Universals''. New York: McGraw-Hill.

...lar reference to the order of meaningful elements. In Greenberg JH (ed.) ''Universals of Grammar''. Cambridge, MA: [[MIT]] Press. pp.73-113. 2nd edition. ...lar reference to the order of meaningful elements. In Greenberg JH (ed.) ''Universals of Grammar''. Cambridge, MA: [[MIT]] Press. pp.73-113. 2nd edition.

...of grammatical organization are more "natural" than others, and linguistic universals is the study of the general features of languages in the world. He also inf

...Language Universals'' 14, 17-58. [Repr. in Joseph H. Greenberg ed. 1978. ''Universals of Human Language''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, vol. 2, 47-92.]

...philosophy, from three different branches: [[metaphysics]] (the problem of universals), [[philosophy of language]] (the meaning of meaning), and [[philosophy of

...aid the foundations for an extension of linguistic inquiry into [[language universals]] - the features common to all languages, which presumably tell us somethin

===Particulars and universals=== ...so say that the two apples seem to have some thing or things in common. [[Universals]] or [[Property (philosophy)|Properties]] are said to be those things.

{{cite book |title=Semantics: Primes and Universals |author=Anna Wierzbicka |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZN029Pmbnu4C& A review of this matter is given by: {{cite book |title=Semantics: Primes and Universals |author=Anna Wierzbicka |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZN029Pmbnu4C&

* Jenkins L. (2004) ''Variation and universals in biolinguistics''. Amsterdam: Elsevier, ISBN 0444512314.

...nsmitted regularities can be considered as the ultimate source of language universals. He draws a parallel with mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, e

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...nsmitted regularities can be considered as the ultimate source of language universals. He draws a parallel with mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, e

*Wierzbicka A. (1996) Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198700024. [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogu

Linguist Anna Wierzbicka, in her book, ''Semantics: Primes and Universals'' (Wierzbicka, 1996), presents an argument, grounded in biologically plausi *<u>Goddard C.</u>, <u>Wierzbicka A.</u> (eds.) (1994) Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and Empirical Findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [http://www.benj

...definitional circularity. See: Wierzbicka A. (1996) Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198700024. [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogu

...t about it, most dichotomies of public and private are, indeed, offered as universals to the extent that they do indeed seek to dichotomize everything. (Hence, t

...1950s he concentrated on large, solid images that were able to function as universals with heightened drama while preserving their qualities as specific expressi