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	Linguistic universal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A linguistic universal is a statement that is true for all languages.
		The field was largely pioneered by the linguist (United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001)) Joseph Greenberg, who from a set of some thirty languages derived a set of basic universals, mostly dealing with (The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences) syntax.
		Linguistic universals are sometimes held up as evidence for (additional info and facts about universal grammar) universal grammar (though (additional info and facts about epistemological) epistemological arguments are more common).
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		The field was largely pioneered by the linguist Joseph H. Greenberg, who from a set of some thirty languages derived a set of basic universals, mostly dealing with syntax.
		Linguistic universals are often held up as evidence for universal grammar.
		Most linguistic universals are properties of a language that aid communication; if a language were to lack one of these properties, it would probably soon evolve into a language that has that property.
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		Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of specialists, who may not all be in harmonious agreement; as Russ Rymer[?] flamboyantly puts it
		Linguists can be broadly divided into those that study language at a particular point in time (usually the present) and those that study how language changes through time, sometimes over centuries.
		Brown University has no department of linguistics, but rather a single "Department of Cognitive Science and Linguistics"; cognitive science tends to be somewhat non-historic in character, and so does the linguistics work of the department.
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	Read about Linguistics at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Linguistics and learn about Linguistics here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of specialists, who may not all be in harmonious agreement; as
		linguistic anthropology are social sciences that consider the interactions between linguistics and society as a whole.
		Edward Sapir a leader in American structural linguistics, was one of the first who explored the relations between language studies and anthropology.
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	Encyclopedia: Linguistic universals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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		Absolute universals apply to every known language and are quite few in number; an example would be All languages have pronouns.
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		historical linguistics, orthography, writing systems, comparative linguistics, cryptanalysis, decipherment, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, evolutionary linguistics, anthropological linguistics, stratificational linguistics, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, and in computer science there is
		The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities.
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