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Universals of Language
Greenberg, J. (Ed.) (1963)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

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From the Conference on Language Universals, 1961 Dobbs Ferry, NY. Whereas Chomsky speaks of broad universals of human language, Greenberg et al. attempt to find structural and grammatical universals in a wide range of human languages. This book is the start of modern linguistic typology, a field that takes as a premise that in order to make claims about universality (and hence innateness), we need to be aware of the variability of structure in the world's languages.

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