Re: Universal grammar
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Oct 2006 07:02:05 -0700
Hans Aberg wrote:
A long time ago, in the early 1970s, a fellow had a book with a kind of
universal grammar, describing what is common to language specific
grammars. For example, it would classify the tense of verbs according to
point of time and temporal direction: past, present, future, thus giving
nine possibilities, noting that Turkish(?) is one of the few languages
having the "future future" tense.
What book might this have been? Are there similar, more contemporary references?
Not the four-volume set edited by Joseph Greenberg *Universals of Human
Language* published by Stanford UP in 1978?
There have been plenty of works along these lines. You might look up
Bernard Comrie.
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