Universals of aspect and parts of speech: parallels between signed and spoken languages

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In this paper I compare grammatical-category systems of signed languages and spoken languages. There are of course superficial differences of channel (hand´-to-eye vs. mouth-to-ear). But once we penetrate beyond this surface, we often find identical patterns. It is reasonable to argue that language structure is very strongly shaped by universals of the human condition: how we think and what we want to talk about. The different channels are secondary, adapted by people to those practical functions.
 
En: Paul J. Hopper (ed.). Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics. [S.n.]: John Benjamins, 1982

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