Universals of Language Today

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scalise, Sergio (Editor), Magni, Elisabetta (Editor), Bisetto, Antonietta (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 76
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.; Phonology.; Syntax.; Theoretical Linguistics.

This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that...

Table of Contents:

• How Universal are Linguistic Categories?
• An Empirical Test of the Agglutination Hypothesis
• What Linguistic Universals Can Be True Of
• Universals of Prosodic Structure
• Lexical Integrity As A Formal Universal: A Constructionist View
• Searching for Universals in Compounding
• Universals and Features
• Methods for Finding Language Universals in Syntax
• The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages
• The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited
• Universals and Semantics
• The Evolution of Latin Word (Dis)order
• Typological Universals and Second Language Acquisition.