| Lemma | universal [a] |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Le Page (1977) |
| Titolo | Processes of Pidginization and Creolization |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | universal [b] (inglese) universal [c] (inglese) universal [d] (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Some linguistic processes or features derive their necessary appearance in all languages from the fact that languages are mediating systems and therefore reflect universals of human experience; thus the expression of moods of affirmation, command, doubt, desire for communion, or for any contingency in a linguistic category we can call ‘mood’ is only secondarily a linguistic universal. We must distinguish such universals [a] from those which may derive from some supposed innate, language-specific characteristics of man on the one hand [b], and those which derive from the physical nature of the medium on the other [c]. Under [a] we must group echoisms, which furnish a limited number of language universals […]. |