Practice question · Multiple choice
Why do linguists reject the claim that some languages are "primitive"?
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- Compare grammatical complexity, not the size of technical vocabulary.
- Field linguists routinely find "small" societies with fearsomely complex grammars.
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B. Every documented language has full grammar
Why
Complexity is universal: languages of small foraging societies often carry richer inflection than the languages of empires. Vocabularies specialize where cultures do, grammar owes nothing to GDP.
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