universal grammar

noun Linguistics.

a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
an innate system of principles underlying the human language faculty.

Words nearby universal grammar

universal city, universal class, universal donor, universal gas constant, universal gas law, universal grammar, universal joint, universal language, universal life insurance, universal military training, universal mill

British Dictionary definitions for universal grammar

universal grammar

noun

linguistics (in Chomskyan transformation linguistics) the abstract limitations on the formal grammatical description of all human languages, actual or possible, that make them human languages