Re: Greenberg's Word Order Universals

Nik wrote:

>Marcus Smith wrote:
>> 300 may be, if the selections were random,
>> and distributed across families and areas so that there is no clumping.
>
>And even if a rule like that about the VSO having rigid order still
>holds true in a sample of 300 or more, it could very well be that we
>simply haven't found the exception.
Absolutely.  But that's true of the claims made about physics, astronomy,
chemistry, etc.  It's simple fact about the nature of scientific inquiry.






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