Author: D. M. Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: universals, realism, scientific, amp, volume, theory
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1980-11-28
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 052128032X
ISBN-13: 9780521280327

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and ’Platonic’ realism. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology.

Author: William E. Rutherford
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: language, second, universals, typological, studies, acquisi, containing, acquisition, contributions, conference
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1984-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0915027100
ISBN-13: 9780915027101

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertilization between research in grammatical theory and in second language acquisition. Topics dealt with in a number of the papers include word order, markedness, core grammar, accessability hierarchies and simplified registers. The range of universals discussed embraces phonology, syntax, semantics

Author: D. M. Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: realism, scientific, universals, amp, volume, nominalism
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1980-11-28
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521280338
ISBN-13: 9780521280334

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and ’Platonic’ realism. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology.

Author: Evan Fale
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: universals, causation
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1990-06-07
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415044383
ISBN-13: 9780415044387

The world contains objective causal relations and universals, both of which are intimately connected. If these claims are true, they must have far-reaching consequences, breathing new life into the theory of empirical knowledge and reinforcing epistemological realism. Without causes and universals, Professor Fales argues, realism is defeated, and idealism or scepticism wins. Fales begins with a detailed analysis of David Hume’s argument that we have no direct experience of necessary connections between events, concluding that Hume was mistaken on this fundamental point. Then, adopting th

Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: universals, primes, semantics
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1996-05-09
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198700032
ISBN-13: 9780198700036

Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal concepts, as they have emerged from large-scale investigations across a wide range of languages undertaken by the author and her colleagues. On the basis of empirical cross-linguistic studies it vindicates the old notion of the "psychic unity of mankind

Authors:Ricardo Mairal, Juana Gil,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: universals, linguistic
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $101.99
ISBN-10: 052183709X
ISBN-13: 9780521837095

The discovery of ’linguistic universals’ - the properties that all languages have in common - is a fundamental goal of linguistic research. Linguists face the task of accounting for why languages, which apparently differ so greatly from one another on the surface, display striking similarities in their underlying structure. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to show how different linguistic theories have approached this challenge. Drawing on work from both formal and functional perspectives, it provides a comprehensive overview of the most notable work on linguis

Author: Jeff Good
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: change, language, universals, linguistic
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 019922899X
ISBN-13: 9780199228997

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins. The volume brings together specially commissioned work by leading scholars, including prominent