Universals of Human Language
Subtitle: Method and Theory
Contributors: Charles A. Ferguson (Editor); Joseph Harold Greenberg (Editor); Edith A. Moravcsik (Editor)
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (S)
Published: August 1978
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780804709651
Subjects: English; Philosophy of language; Language; Universals (Linguistics)
First sentence: As soon as human beings began to make systematic observations about one another's languages, they were probably impressed by the paradox that all languages are in some fundamental sense one and the same, and yet they are also strikingly different from one another.