Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 2:12 |
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Jonathan Chang wrote: are hardly
> represented well and neither are pidgins and creoles ...
> So much for Greenberg's Universals... ::makes look of vague
> annoyance::
But are the universals based only on this 30-language study? Or was
there a later study with more languages? If it was only those 30, then
I don't care how carefully they were chosen to avoid mutual influence
and the like, 30's not a good sample size, and the study could hardly be
considered conclusive.
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