Universals of language : report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York April 13-15, 1961 / edited by Joseph H. Greenberg

Conference Author:: Conference on Language Universals (1961 : Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Published:: Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1966]
Copyright Date:: [©1966]
Edition:: 2d ed.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xxvii, 337 pages)
Additional Creators:: Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001 and Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Linguistics and Psychology

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Memorandum concerning language universals / Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles E. Osgood, and James J. Jenkins -- The 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.

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0262570084
9780262570084

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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.

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