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Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model
Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François and Harald Hammarström
[Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1] 2019
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Introduction

Problems with, and alternatives to, the tree model in historical linguistics

| Australian National University
| LaTTiCe (CNRS; ENS-PSL; Paris 3-USPC) | Australian National University
| Uppsala University
Published online: 2 July 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00005.kal
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