Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals

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.
>
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