Universals, diversity and change in the science of language: Reaction to "The Myth of Language Universals and Cognitive Science"

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2699-2703

  Longobardi, Giuseppe ^a   Roberts, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b DOWNING COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constituency; Historical explanations; Inductive deductive; Language diversity; Universals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957347765     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.04.006     Document Type: Review

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