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As Universal as Language…

July 24, 2007

There are certain things common to all languages, or nearly all, and these are called language universals.  Now some of these universals are surprising and some aren’t.
 Some of the not terribly surprising universals are things like how languages function in the mind.  Meaning, most languages have in common things like subjects, verbs, direct objects and [...]