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December 2010
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"This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to survive as a basis for inquiry for many decades to come." Prof. Dr. William Labov. 1966, 2005 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 10785 Berlin. All rights reserved.
... As mentioned above, there is a tradition of assuming that there is a universally valid markedness hierarchy that is inherent to the values of a particular grammatical feature like number. Based on various morphological criteria going back to Greenberg (1966), it is widely accepted that dual is a cross-linguistically more marked number value than plural and that plural is more marked than singular (e.g. Noyer 1992; Nevins 2011a; Smith et al. 2019). ...
December 2010
