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<p><b>Theoretical linguistics</b>, or <b>general linguistics</b>, is the branch of <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a> which inquires into the nature of <a href="page.php?w=language">language</a> itself and seeks to answer fundamental questions as to what language is; how it works; how <a href="page.php?w=universal_grammar">universal grammar</a> (UG) as a domain-specific mental organ operates, if it exists at all; what its unique properties are; how language relates to other cognitive processes, etc. Theoretical linguists are most concerned</p><p>
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