Universal #1191
Legacy number: 1191
| Number | 1187 |
| Original | In all cultures/languages, there is a hierarchy of terms referring to the animal and plant kingdoms (and perhaps other domains of folk taxonomies) with at least a superordinate (life form), a basic (generic), and a subordinate (specific) level. The basic level terms have the highest salience (e.g. are the ones used most frequently, are shortest and morphologically least complex). |
| Standardized | In all cultures/languages, there is a hierarchy of terms referring to the animal and plant kingdoms (and perhaps other domains of folk taxonomies) with at least a superordinate (life form), a basic (generic), and a subordinate (specific) level. The basic level terms have the highest salience (e.g. are the ones used most frequently, are shortest and morphologically least complex). |
| Keywords | (biological) folk taxonomy |
| Domain | lexicon |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | ? |
| Source | Berlin, Breedlove, & Raven 1973; Brown 1984 |
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