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Relativity, linguistic variation and language universals
CogniTextes, 2010 Language universals are usually thought of as properties holding of all languages. But very few, if any, such universals exist, due to the extreme structural diversity of languages.
William Croft
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2020 Research into ‘translation universals’ in legal translation is a relatively new field, which still needs to be expanded with further empirical studies. The few studies conducted so far fall into two main categories: a) analyses that explore the typical ...
Pontrandolfo Gianluca
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Predicting word order universals
Journal of Language Modelling, 2015 This paper shows a computational learning paradigm to compare and test theories about language universals. Its main contribution lies in the illustration of the encoding and comparison of theories about typological universals to measure the ...
Paola Merlo
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TEFLIN Journal, 2003 This paper highlights two of the implications of language acquisition research, namely, Processing Instruction, and Implicational Universals, and explores their potentials for English language teaching in the 21st century.
Patrisius Istiarto Djiwandono
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Child or Grown-up: Language Universals and Language Particula
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2005 Language is a means of human cognitive activity. The knowledge of the natural process of the acquisition of each language, namely of a foreign one, is highly necessary in language learning process.
Rouzanna Arakelyan
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Adjective Similes as Lexical Universals
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2019 The article deals with adjective similes of some Slavonic, Baltic and German languages from the position of typology and linguistics of universals and is aimed at revealing common fixed expressions.
Irina A. Muzheika
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 This work discusses several proposals about the nature of the so-called “problem of universals” or “one over many”. First, it is argued that the problem has nothing to do with a conceptual or semantic analysis about predication or resemblance.
José Tomás Alvarado Marambio
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Stanislav Voronin’s Universal Classification of Onomatopoeic Words: a Critical Approach (Part 2)
Дискурс, 2021 Introduction. The present paper is a critical study of the classification methodology introduced by S. V. Voronin in 1969. The phonosemantic classification of onomatopoeic (sound imitative) words has been tested on the material of typologically different
M. A. Flaksman
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Contemporary linguistics of English language [PDF]
Univerzitetska Misao, 2020 The paper examines the influence of modern linguistics and the consequences of language reflection on both English language and global philology. A comparative analysis of preferences and lacks of traditional and modern linguistics represent a common ...
Fijuljanin Fahreta +2 more
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A frequentist explanation of some universals of reflexive marking
Linguistic Discovery, 2008 This paper identifies a number of empirically observable universals of reflexive marking that concern the existence of a special reflexive pronoun and the length of the marker that is used in reflexive constructions, in various different positions of the
Martin Haspelmath
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