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Are there any natural languages that do not contain types?

asked 2015-11-01 21:50:47 -0400

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Are there, or have there been, natural languages that only use individuals (or tokens) and not types? Has there been any study on the prevalence or scarcity of types in languages and the impact it has on those languages?

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