New study: Despite global linguistic diversity, grammar often shares similar structures (IMAGE)

Saarland University

New study: Despite global linguistic diversity, grammar often shares similar structures

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The team, led by Annemarie Verkerk of Saarland University (photo) and Russell Gray from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might occur universally.

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