>Peter Bleackley sikyal:
>
> > Reading Greenberg's list of universals
> >
> >
http://angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de/Korean/Artikel02/Appendix3.html
> >
> > I've discovered that Khangaþyagon violates universals 2,3,6,10,12, and
> > possibly 23 although I'm not sure of his terminology. This is mainly
> > because Khangaþyagon is based on what seemed plausible to me without
> > reading the list.
> >
> > I'd be interested to know how many universals other people's conlangs
> > violate, and whether this came about naively or deliberately.
>
>Yivrian violates #s 10, 39, and 40. None of these decisions were made
>with conscious knowledge that I was violating a "universal", but I'm
>sticking by them anyway. As the text of most of these universals admits,
>these are *near* universals, or statistical universals, and
>counterexamples are to be expected. I'm glad to let Yivrian be a
>counterexample to at least a few.