Language Universals

Any investigation about Language Universals, aims at finding common characteristics of languages, and considers the spread of variation across languages. The term “Universal” refers to the idea that the distributions of certain features and paradigms across human languages have been a topic for research. Investigating language universals leads to the understanding of basic features of human languages, and this is what shapes the possible wordless of languages. The present paper deals with language universals, the literature dedicated to this subject and the types of language universals, and finally the universals introduced by Framkin and Rodman and Greenberg are included.