Universals of language
Subtitle: report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961.
By: Edited by Joseph H. Greenberg.
Contributors: Greenberg, Joseph Harold, 1915-; Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Linguistics and Psychology.
Publisher: M.I.T. Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Language and languages -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
The conference was sponsored by the Linguistics and Psychology Committee of the Social Science Research Council.
Table of contents: title: The problem of universals in language, by C. F. Hockett.; title: Are there universals of linguistic change, by H. M. Hoenigwsald.; title: Assumptions about nasals; a sample study in phonolgoical universals, by C. A. Ferguson.; title: Phoneme distribution and language universals, by S. Sap.; title: Some universals of grammar with particular references to the order of meaningful elements, by J. H. Greenberg.; title: A search for universals in Indo-European diachronic morphology, by W. Cowgill.; title: On the semantic structure of language, by U. Weinreich.; title: Semantic universals, by S. Ullman.; title: Implications of language universals for linguists, by R. Jakobson.; title: Language universals in anthropological perspective, by J. B. Casagrande.; title: Language universals and psycholinguistics, by C. E. Osgood.