| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 19:35 |
> > http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp/download/enclaves@ALT5-2003BB-JN.pdf > >Now this was a very, very interesting presentation! Ignore the >synthesis index stuff, it's about how language "trends" spread, and had >some examples of weird stuff that I hadn't seen before.>t.Wait, am I reading this right? Are they really saying that statistical typological universals might be arbitrary, ie. in a different history, they could be some other way 'round instead? Well that certainly makes me feel less bad about the actual or nigh-universals I've broken so far (or will come to break.) :) John Vertical