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Definition: General statement of a pattern across the structures of languages or within a single language, e.g. if the verb precedes the object in a sentence, the language will have prepositions and not postpositions; associated with the work of Joseph H. Greenberg and so sometimes called 'Greenberg universal'. [d] [e]
