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Publication details [#4529]

Heath, Jeffrey. 1978. Functional universals. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 4 : 86–95.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functionalism vs. formalism | language universal

Annotation

Instead of taking formal components as one's starting point in the search for linguistic universals, H. proposes to start from functional considerations from which, ideally, formal universals can be logically derived.