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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Main Author: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
Other Authors: Malchukov, Andrej (Editor), Comrie, Bernard (Editor)
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Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
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