Universals of language report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961. Edited by Joseph H. Greenberg. - Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press [1963] - x, 269 p. tables. 25 cm.

The conference was sponsored by the Linguistics and Psychology Committee of the Social Science Research Council.

Includes bibliographies.

The problem of universals in language, by C. F. Hockett.--Are there universals of linguistic change, by H. M. Hoenigwsald.--Assumptions about nasals; a sample study in phonolgoical universals, by C. A. Ferguson.--Phoneme distribution and language universals, by S. Sap.--Some universals of grammar with particular references to the order of meaningful elements, by J. H. Greenberg.--A search for universals in Indo-European diachronic morphology, by W. Cowgill.--On the semantic structure of language, by U. Weinreich.--Semantic universals, by S. Ullman.--Implications of language universals for linguists, by R. Jakobson.--Language universals in anthropological perspective, by J. B. Casagrande.--Language universals and psycholinguistics, by C. E. Osgood.

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Language and languages--Congresses.

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