linguistic universal

• Ein Merkmal, eine Regelmäßigkeit oder Eigenschaft, die in allen bekannten menschlichen Sprachen vorkommt und auf einen grundlegenden Aspekt menschlicher Kognition oder Kommunikation hinweist.

A property, pattern, or feature that is found across all known human languages, suggesting a fundamental aspect of human cognition or communication.

1. Universal property of languageC1formal

   A pattern or feature that is found across all known human languages, often considered a fundamental aspect of human cognition.

   Sprachuniversalie

   • The existence of nouns and verbs is considered a linguistic universal.
   • Linguists study linguistic universals to understand the innate structure of language.
   • One linguistic universal is that all languages have a way to distinguish between questions and statements.