Discuss the concept of language universals.

Language universals refer to the idea that there are common features shared by all human languages.

These commonalities include basic grammatical structures such as subject-verb-object word order, the use of pronouns, and the distinction between nouns and verbs. Other universals include the use of negation, questions, and imperatives, as well as the existence of phonemes (the smallest units of sound in a language) and morphemes (the smallest units of meaning).