TY - BOOK AU - Greenberg,Joseph Harold ED - Conference on Language Universals ED - Conference on Language Universals ED - Conference on Language Universals ED - Social Science Research Council. TI - Universals of language: report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 AV - P23 1961 .C65 U1 - 410.82 PY - 1963///] CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - M.I.T. Press KW - Language and languages KW - Congresses KW - Local N1 - 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 ER -