The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. Its contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behi

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrela

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language uni

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1