Euroversal

plural Euroversals

1. human sciencesA characteristic shared among most or all European languages.

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   The basis for the Euroversals in this section is Table 15, which lists those sixteen interclausal relations for which more than 80% of all those European languages which predominantly or exclusively make us of adverbial subordinators as defined in this study possess at least one (multi-word, one-word, or even monomorphemic) adverbial subordinator which can express the given relation as its exclusive or (one of its) primary meaning(s).

   2011 May 9, Johan van der Auwera, Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 539