Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity

Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Editors

Søren Wichmann | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University

Anthony P. Grant | Edge Hill University

[Diachronica, 27:2] 2010. v, 168 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 October 2010

Table of Contents

Articles / Aufsätze
Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics Anthony P. Grant	191–196
A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis Harald Hammarström	197–213
Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? Eric W. Holman	214–225
Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary Uri Tadmor, Martin Haspelmath and Bradley Taylor	226–246
Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Søren Wichmann, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai	247–276
On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies Anthony P. Grant	277–300
Beyond lexicostatistics: How to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisons Paul Heggarty	301–324
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Jennifer Sullivan and April McMahon	325–340
A stochastic local search approach to language tree reconstruction Francesca Tria, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Pagnani	341–358

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