nam a22 c 4500 bct.46/236010553 nljbp 250625020752.0 cr ||||||||||| 241223s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012027511 9789027273352 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P138.5 410.72/7 23 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (x, 182 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamins Current Topics 1874-0081 46 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface -- Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics / Anthony P. Grant -- A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis / Harald Hammarström -- Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? / Eric W. Holman -- Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary / Uri Tadmor, Martin Haspelmath and Bradley Taylor -- Homelands of the world’s language families / Søren Wichmann, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai -- On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history / Anthony P. Grant -- Beyond lexicostatistics / Paul Heggarty -- Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks / Jennifer Sullivan and April McMahon -- A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction / Francesca Tria, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Pagnani Quantitative methods in linguistics, which the protean American structuralist linguist Morris Swadesh introduced in the 1950s, have become increasingly popular and have opened the world of languages to interdisciplinary approaches. The papers collected here are the work not only of descriptive and historical linguists, but also statisticians, physicists and computer scientists. They demonstrate the application of quantitative methods to the elucidation of linguistic prehistory on an unprecedented world-wide scale, providing cutting-edge insights into issues of the linguistic correlates of subsistence strategies, rates of birth and extinction of languages, lexical borrowability, the identification of language family homelands, the assessment of genealogical relationships, and the development of new phylogenetic methods appropriate for linguistic data. Originally published in Diachronica 27:2 (2010). Provided by publisher. Historical linguistics Wichmann, Søren editor Grant, Anthony P. editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027202659 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.46 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273352