Universal 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
- Counterexamples
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)