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universal grammar
noun
- a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
- an innate system of principles underlying the human language faculty.
universal grammar
noun
- linguistics (in Chomskyan transformation linguistics) the abstract limitations on the formal grammatical description of all human languages, actual or possible, that make them human languages
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He called the rules of this device universal grammar, and his method of studying the rules he called generative grammar.
A simple universal grammar to be applied to the vocabulary of each national language.
Again, it is said that Universal Grammar or Philology is taught upon the basis of a foreign language.
If it were to illustrate Universal Grammar and Philology, this would be brought out to the neglect of translation.
In 1751 appeared the work by which he became best known, Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar.
What historical grammar is to comparative grammar, comparative grammar is to universal grammar.
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