Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. Its contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behi

This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of differ

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, re

In this book leading scholars examine and assess rival explanations for linguistic universals and the effectiveness of different models of language change. They