Dunn et al. on word order typology in "Nature"

[Martin Haspelmath]

In my recollection, this is the first typology article to be published 
in Nature: 
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09923.html. Congratulations 
to our colleagues in Auckland and Nijmegen!

There is also a popularized account in Nature News 
(http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110413/full/news.2011.231.html), and a 
Nature editorial about "Universal truths" 
(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7342/full/472136a.html). How 
wonderful to see that typology has become so important!

(Unfortunately, I don't see what is new in the paper -- maybe someone 
can explain this? Didn't we know all along that we are not likely to get 
correlations if we don't control for genealogical relatedness?)

Martin
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