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Bibliography

Works cited in the linguistic universal article

Further reading

2009- debate

A controversial article by Evans and Levinson sparked significant debate across academic fields involved with language.

• Evans, Nicholas and Stephen C. Levinson (2009). 'The myth of language universals'. Behaviorial and Brain Sciences 32: 429–492. Includes comments from Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff and others, plus a response from the authors.

More responses and rebuttals followed in a 2010 edition of the 'Lingua' journal.

• Brown, Cecil H. (1976) "General principles of human anatomical partonomy and speculations on the growth of partonomic nomenclature." American Ethnologist 3, no. 3, Folk Biology, pp. 400-424
• Comrie, Bernard (1981) Language universals and linguistic typology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Enfield, Nick J. & Asifa Majid & Miriam van Staden (2006) 'Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: Introduction' (special issue of Language Sciences).
• Ferguson, Charles A. (1968) 'Historical background of universals research'. In: Greenberg, Ferguson, & Moravcsik, Universals of human languages, pp. 7–31.
• Goddard, Cliff and Wierzbicka, Anna (eds.). 1994. Semantic and Lexical Universals - Theory and Empirical Findings. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Goddard, Cliff (2002) 'The search for the shared semantic core of all languages'. In Goddard & Wierzbicka (eds.) Meaning and Universal Grammar - Theory and Empirical Findings volume 1, pp. 5-40, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.) (1963) Universals of languages. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.) (1978a) Universals of human language Vol. 4: Syntax. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.) (1978b) Universals of human language Vol. 3: Word structure. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Heine, Bernd (1997) Cognitive Foundations of Grammar. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rosch, E. & Mervis, C.B. & Gray, W.D. & Johnson, D.M. & Boyes-Braem, P. (1976) 'Basic Objects In Natural Categories', Cognitive Psychology, 8-3, 382-439.
• Wilkins, David P. (1993) ‘From part to person: natural tendencies of semantic change and the search for cognates’, Working paper No. 23, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Plack Institute for Psycholinguistics.