Grammatical universals are properties (or hypotheses about such properties) which are common to all human languages. According to Greenberg (1966), the following formal and logical typology of universals can be postulated: (a) unrestricted universals...

// n. Any object or property which is posited as being present in the grammars of all languages, or at least as being ‘available’ to those grammars, even if not actually realized in some. Universals are sometimes divided into formal...

n. or adj. 1. Narrowly, a property which is shared by all languages, which is part of the definition of a human language: an absolute universal. 2. Broadly, any property found in most, but not all, languages: a statistical universal. See also...

Universal may refer to: The Universe is defined as the summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur. Universal (metaphysics) Universal joint, a machine part consisting of a pair of hinges located close...