Form and substance in language universels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword III
3. Contents V
4. Introduction 1
5. Constraints on gaps: is the parser a significant influence? 9
6. On the generality of the nested-dependency constraint and the reason for an exception in Dutch 35
7. Form and substance in language universels 67
8. Form and function in explaining language universale 87
9. Temporal distance: remoteness distinctions in tense-aspect systems 105
10. The verbs of perception: a typological study 123
11. Conceptual and semantic change in scientists and children: why there are no semantic universals 163
12. Self-organizing processes and the explanation of phonological universals 181
13. Natural auditory sensitivities as universal determiners of phonemic contrasts 205
14. Some physiological and perceptual constraints on tonal systems 237
15. Principles and parameters in prosodic phonology 249
16. Name index 281
17. Subject index 287
18. Language and language-group index 291