Full Idea
The infelicity of category mistakes seems to be universal across languages.
Gist of Idea
Category mistakes seem to be universal across languages
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 2.3)
Book Reference
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.33
A Reaction
Magidor rightly offers this fact to refute the claim that category mistakes are purely syntax (since syntax obviously varies hugely across languages). I also take the fact to show that category mistakes concern the world, and not merely language.