Universals of human language

The outer archives are busy

by Charles Albert Ferguson, Joseph Harold Greenberg, Edith A. Moravcsik

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As soon as human beings began to make systematic observations about one another's languages, they were probably impressed by the paradox that all languages are in some fundamental sense one and the same, and yet they are also strikingly different from one another.

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