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Euroversal
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Noun
en linguistics A characteristic shared among most or all European languages.
en https://books.google.ch/books?id=5jrzu8Gh3mIC&pg=PA539&dq=%22euroversals%22 Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe Johan van der Auwera Walter de Gruyter Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 9783110802610 1058507939 2011-05-09 539 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).
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en Standard Average European