Review article
The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods
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
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