1. Linguistic Universals
Juan Alfredo Zulueta Ventura
Professor James Tobin
Theories of Languages

2. Noam Chomsky and Joseph Greenberg
EMPIRICISM ¨ Concrete Universal¨
RATIONALISM ¨Abstract Universal¨

4. Linguistic Universal
¨A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels.¨

5. ¨The field was largely pioneered by the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who derived a set of forty-five basic universals, mostly dealing with syntax, from a study of some thirty languages.¨

6. Universal 1

7. In favor of Greenberg

8. Chomsky (innate knowledge)
On 1 language in detail
Abstract
Governed by general principals in a natural language
UG elements that can be moved

9. REFERENCES en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_universal
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