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Universals of human language. Vol. 2 : phonology by Joseph H. Greenberg (editor), Charles A. Ferguson (editor), Edith A. Moravcsik (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The 46 papers in this 4-volume collection pro-vide clear and certain evidence that the search for "implicational universals" of human language (that is, for valid empirical generalizations such as "if property Y exists in a language, then property X must exist as well") has established itself, once and for all, as a powerful and dynamic force in modern linguistics. Concomitantly, the collection attests to a broadened use among scholars engaged in universals re-search of a theoretical and methodological strategy-pioneered, elaborated, and most extensively applied by Joseph Greenberg- that contrasts in fundamental respects with procedures favored by generative grammarians. Finally, and most impressive of all, the papers present abundant "results," a profusion of concrete findings that should persuade even the most hardened skeptics that implicational principles have a great deal to tell about what human language is and how it got to be that way. -- from http://www.jstor.org (May 21, 2014)

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Author

Joseph H. Greenberg (editor), Charles A. Ferguson (editor), Edith A. Moravcsik (editor)

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804709651

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-24