Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies
Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language may imply the presence of others, Silverstein's (1976) observations...
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