Re: Universals list?

Sai wrote:
> I've seen the Greenberg list.
>
> But AFAIK, it's considered outdated and methodologically unsound
> 'cause of the small sample size. I know there have been studies
> on this since then, but I don't know of any equally convenient
> form of them - i.e. some sort of list of tendencies / implications / etc.
>
> Anyone know of such a thing?
The first place to go would probably be Johanna Nichols' _Linguistic
Diversity through Space and Time_, which won a major award from the
LSA several years back.  I consider it the most statistically
rigorous and most important book on the subject of universals in print
today.

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