Ammonius on Universals and Abstraction

James of Viterbo on Universals

The chapter starts out with a brief discussion of the similarity alleged to exist by the editors of William Ockham’s Ordinatio between a series of opinions canvassed by Ockham on the nature of universals and a series of opinions listed by James of Viterbo on the nature of concepts. It then proceeds to expound James’s little known theory of concepts and universals, and concludes that, despite in...

On the Necessity and Sufficiency of Universals

On the Necessity and Sufficiency of Universals

Linguistic diversity and universals

Typological Universals and Intrinsic Universals on the L2 Acquisition of Consonant Clusters

This study is to examine if typological universals built upon primary languages are applicable to interlanguage data in SLA. Implicational universal is considered the classic example of a typological universal by Croft (2003). Thus, the Interlanguage Structural Conformity Hypothesis, which consists of two implicational universals proposed by Eckman (1991), were tested against data from an inter...

Typology and universals