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Spitzbardt, Harry – CIEFL Bulletin, 1977
Similarities among different languages that are met with by means of empirical, confrontative analysis should not be mistaken for universals in the logical or philosophical sense. What Verma has described as the "propositional constituents" of a sentence (participants, process, and a temporal relation) may be considered logically…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
