摘要
语言为人类社会所特有,因而人类的共同本质必然会在语言中有所体现。语言普遍性的研究就是人们对这些共同本质的探讨。这种探讨活动在人类文明早期就已出现。在古希腊时期,斯多葛学派的哲学家就提出,语言的外部形式是人类本质内在普遍性的反映。古希腊和罗马的语法学家也曾提出普遍语法的语言观。他们认为,一切语言都具有共同的语言结构。12世纪中期,P.
In the 1960s, the author says, there emerged in America two theories of linguistic universals, the typological school and the generative school, one representing the empirical tradition and the other a Cartesian or mentalistic approach. Quite naturally, the tWO differ in methods of research and explanation of universals. It has been said that the two schools are complementary in the search of linguistic universals.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
1990年第3期5-10,80,共7页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
