Euroversal

English

Noun

Euroversal (plural Euroversals)

1. (linguistics) A characteristic shared among most or all European languages.
   • 2011 May 9, Johan van der Auwera, Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT])‎^[1], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 539:

     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).

See also

• Standard Average European