Universal #1326

Legacy number: 1326

 Number  1322
 Original  No human language has a grammatically homogeneous vocabulary.
 Standardized  No human language has a grammatically homogeneous vocabulary.
 Keywords  vocabulary
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Hockett 1963: 23

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Discussion
Notes
Except for the three special categories of elements: deictic elements (##496, 1324), proper names (#1325), and markers, i.e. elements that denote nothing but make a difference in the denotation of the composite forms in which they occur. (Hockett 1963: 21)
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Except for the three special categories of elements: deictic elements (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=496"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1324"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">), proper names
(<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1325"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">), and markers, i.e. elements that denote nothing but make a difference in the denotation of the composite forms in which they occur. (Hockett 1963: 21)