Abstract
The expressive power of a language is its ability to convey meanings of various kinds. Although it is generally accepted that all languages are endowed with similar expressive power, languages may still vary substantially with respect to their expressive power within particular domains. A given meaning may be expressible in all, some, or no languages. Moreover, in languages where it is expressible, a meaning may assume a variety of linguistic forms: lexical, morphological, syntactic, discourse textual, or intonational. Various aspects of expressive power may be accounted for in terms of a language's typological properties or, alternatively, its extralinguistic circumstances.
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