Universal #2025

Legacy number: 2025

 Number  2019
 Original  All languages have some "emotion terms" (i.e. terms designating some cognitively based feelings).
 Standardized  There are some "emotion terms" (i.e. terms designating some cognitively based feelings).
 Keywords  emotion, sensation, cognition
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  "working hypothesis ... on evidence gleaned from both cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies"
 Source  Wierzbicka 1999: 276, 284-286

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Discussion
Notes
(i) This complements #2024: interjections for "voicing" feelings; terms for "describing" them.(ii) "Specific" emotion terms are unlikely to be universal; but see #2026.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
(i) This complements <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=2024"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">: interjections for "voicing" feelings; terms for "describing" them.
(ii) "Specific" emotion terms are unlikely to be universal; but see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=2026"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.