Universals of language

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 1963
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Description
Item Description:The problem of universals in language, by C.F. Hockett.--Are there universals of linguistic change, by H.M. Hoenigwsald.--Assumptionsabout nasals; a sample study in phonological universals, by C.A. Ferguson.--Phoneme distributions and language universals, by S. Sap.--Some universals of grammar with particular references to the order ofmeaningful elements, by J.H. Greenberg.--A search for universals in Indo-European diachronic morphology, by W. Cowgill.--On the semantic structure of language, by U. Weinreich.--Semantic universals, by S. Ullman.--Implications of language universals for linguists, by R.Jakobson.--Language universals in anthropological perspective, by J.B. Casagrande.--Language universals and psycholinguists, by C.E. Osgood
Physical Description:x, 269 p.. 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
Includes index