Ezt olvasom
Iverson & Salmons, 2003, Laryngeal enhancement in early Germanic, Phonology 20, 43--74, 1. lj. wrote:
The descriptive typological success of a privative feature set is strong confirmation over the less restrictive binary alternative, which admits of twice as many possibilities because it marks both positive and negatively valued features as opposed to merely the presence of a feature, absence of a feature being literally unmarked.
(kiemelés tőlem) Ugye ez egy nagy baromság, hisz egy privatív jegy pont annyi esetet különböztet meg, mint egy bináris: kettőt.