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Diachronica
Vol. 34:3 (2017) ► pp.421–436
Review article

The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods

| Yale University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: The evolution of Bayesian linguistic phylogenetics
  • 2.Innovations and retentions
  • 3.Using the lexicon in historical change
  • 4.Do loans cause problems for phylogenetics?
  • 5.Dating evolution
  • 6.Procedural issues
  • 7.Using language to discover the past
  • 8.Bayesian methods in Indo-European
  • 9.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 October 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.34.3.04bow
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