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Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 2:36
What was the original post? I think that one bypassed me!

Padraic.

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

>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. > >-- >Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos >God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb >ICQ: 18656696 >AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor >