Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity
Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh
Special Issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010)
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[Diachronica, 27:2] 2010. v, 168 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Swadesh’s life and place in linguisticsAnthony P. Grant | pp. 191–196
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A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesisHarald Hammarström | pp. 197–213
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Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates?Eric W. Holman | pp. 214–225
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Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabularyUri Tadmor, Martin Haspelmath and Bradley Taylor | pp. 226–246 -
Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approachSøren Wichmann, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai | pp. 247–276
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On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studiesAnthony P. Grant | pp. 277–300
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Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisonsPaul Heggarty | pp. 301–324
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Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here tooJennifer Sullivan and April McMahon | pp. 325–340
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A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstructionFrancesca Tria, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Pagnani | pp. 341–358
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