Why Are Certain Properties of Binary Relations Relatively More Common in Natural Language?

DOI10.2307/2171786zbMath0859.90010OpenAlexW2051117422MaRDI QIDQ5690041

Ariel Rubinstein

Publication date: 15 January 1997

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2171786

zbMATH Keywords

optimalitynatural languagebinary relationslinear orderings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08) Linguistics (91F20)

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