report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 Conference on Language Universals (1961 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.) creator Conference on Language Universals (1961 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.) creator Conference on Language Universals (1961 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.) creator Greenberg, Joseph Harold 1915- Social Science Research Council Committee on Linguistics and Psychology. text bibliography conference publication mau Cambridge, Mass M.I.T. Press [1963] 1963 monographic eng

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x, 269 p. tables. 25 cm. 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. Edited by Joseph H. Greenberg. The conference was sponsored by the Linguistics and Psychology Committee of the Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographies. Language and languages Congresses P23 1961 .C65 410.82 62022020 DLC 740927 20160527184200.0 116364