NO UNIVERSALS -- A study looking at how different word-order features depend on one another (line thickness indicates connection strength) suggests that Austronesian and Indo-European language families follow different word-order rules. Among four features expected to be strongly correlated (shaded background), only one link showed up in both families.M. Dunn et al/Nature 2011, adapted by E. Feliciano
I was thinking about language yesterday (only saw the thread today) and wondered about how the complexity of a language corresponds to the development of a nation. Just wondering.
Cunning linguists . . .