Proponent vs Universalist - What's the difference?
proponent | universalist |
One who supports something; an advocate
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
Making proposals; proposing.
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Universal in scope.
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*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 19, author=Grace Glueck, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.}}
As nouns the difference between proponent and universalist
is that proponent is one who supports something; an advocate while universalist is a follower of universalism.As an adjective proponent
is making proposals; proposing.proponent
English
Noun
(en noun)- Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
Synonyms
* exponentAntonyms
* detractor * opponentAdjective
(-)universalist
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In this connection, she notes (1984, p. 42) that in Vata (a language of the Kru family, spoken in the Ivory Coast) the normal word-order is [NP I [VP XP? V]], where XP? represents one or more Complements of the head V of VP, and where V is positioned at the right periphery of V-bar. She notes that in Vata, a finite Clause containing an Auxiliary will have the AUX positioned in I between the subject NP and the VP, with the V positioned at the end of the VP, as in [...]
But if I contains no Auxiliary (i.e. is empty), the Verb of the VP will move from V into I, and hence no longer be positioned at the end of VP, but rather in the characteristic I position between NP and VP: cf.
[...]
Here, the movement of the Verb out of VP-final position ([...]) into I produces an obvious change in the linear ordering of constituents, thus lending clear empirical support to the V MOVEMENT analysis. And Koopman goes on to suggest that given that we have clear empirical motivation for positing a rule of V MOVEMENT for languages such as Vata, universalist considerations argue in favor of adopting the V MOVEMENT analysis rather than the AFFIX MOVEMENT analysis for English, in default of any evidence to the contrary.
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