Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variation

Diversity in language is ubiquitous: typological studies have identified many degrees of variation in every system of grammar (e.g., lexical category systems, systems of pronominal anaphora, (non-)configurational structure, degrees of inflection, to mention just a few), and studies within a given "language" have also identified many kinds of variation, only some of which are correlated with social groups, communities, or communicative styles.

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