hare common origins it seems\rreasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.\r(48)To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex\rcultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.\r(49)The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying\rtraits (particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases\rthat result from cognitive constraints\r(5O)Chomsky,s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family\rtree or the pathway tracked through it. Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong\rco-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.
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