The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. Its contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behi

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrela

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the wa