| Edition |
2d ed. |
| Description |
xxvii, 337 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961, and sponsored by the Linguistic and Psychology Committee of the Social Science Research Council. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Memorandum concerning language universals / Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles E. Osgood, and James J. Jenkins -- Problem of universals in language / Charles F. Hockett -- Are there universals of linguistic change? / Henry M. Hoenigswald -- Assumptions about nasals : a sample study in phonological universals / Charles A. Ferguson -- Phoneme distribution and language universals / Sol Saporta -- Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements / Joseph H. Greenberg -- A search for universals in Indo-European diachronic morphology / Warren Cowgill -- On the semantic structure of language / Uriel Weinreich -- Semantic universals / Stephen Ullmann -- Implications of language universals for linguistics / Roman Jakobson -- Language universals in anthropological perspective / Joseph B. Casagrande -- Language universals and psycholinguistics / Charles E. Osgood. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Congresses.
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Language and languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001.
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Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Linguistics and Psychology.
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| ISBN |
0262570084 |
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9780262570084 |
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