For many linguists and applied linguists the description of the principles and properties that are common to all or most languages is the ultimate pinnacle of linguistic enquiry. These properties have referred to as language universals. Two types of language universals are commonly identified: formal universals and substantive universals. Formal universals refer to general design features of language such as the movement and ordering of items according to certain principle and that all languages are 'category- based' i.e. every language has nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs although the items which count as such may vary from one language to another. Substantive universals are the particular structural features which languages have in common as part of their content such as the noun phrase and that the phrase usually the complement comes before or after the head, and in the way these phrases are combined to form a sentence . Binomials formation, the process by which a language uses the ordering of certain conjoined items of two or more sometimes three words to form (ir)reversible units seem to be universal although they differ in the degree of reversibility, the category under which they occur and the syntactic and semantic constraints upon their formation process. They are available in English, German, Arabic and Kurdish (Irreversible) freezes , or binomials , or lexical phrases (Polo, 1998) are fixed, mostly formulaic and idiomatic expressions linked by coordinating conjunctions 'and' 'or' or a preposition e.g. 'law and order', dead or alive, 'hand in hand'. Malkiel ( defines them as "a sequence of two words pertaining to the same form class, placed on an identical level of syntactic hierarchy and ordinarily connected by the same kind of lexical link". Frozen binomials are those "that occur nearly exclusively in one order- including several semantic and phonological principles and reasons for their freezing" . Doblin (1981) notes that they are "a special group within idiomatic expressions." While for Gil freezes are "conjoined expressions in which the order of the conjuncts is fixed".